578 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 321

or notice; thereafter the County Commissioners shall ap-
point some suitable person to act as Clerk of the Police
Court for said county. That said Clerk of the Police Court
before entering upon his duties shall execute a bond to State
of Maryland in the penalty of five thousand dollars ($5, 000)
conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his
office and to pay over any and all money coming into his hands
as Clerk of the said Police Court. That said Clerk of the
Police Court shall attend said Court every day, legal holidays
and Sundays excepted from the hours of 9 a. m. until 5 p. m.,
and said Clerk shall have charge of all of the records, dockets
arid papers of said Court, and said Clerk shall have the author-
ity to administer oaths in all matters that appertain to said
Court, and said Clerk shall keep and transcribe the records and
dockets of said Court and shall issue all of the writs of said
Court in the name of the Police Justice for hearing or trial,
and shall issue all witness certificates and shall receive all
fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed or collected by virtue
of any writ issued out of said Police Court. That said Clerk
of said Police Court shall pay over to the County Commis-
sioners of Montgomery County all such fines, penalties or for-
feitures so collected by him monthly on the first Tuesday of
each and every month, together with a detailed and itemized
report setting forth the items so collected by him. That said
Clerk of the Police Court shall have the general authority
to do any and all things in connection with his duties as Clerk
of said Court as are generally imposed and required of Clerks
of Courts of a similar nature, said Clerk, however, may be re-
moved from office for misconduct, inefficiency, neglect or mal-
feasance in office by the County Commissioners, who are hereby
authorized to appoint his successor to fill out the unexpired
term. That the said Clerk of the Police Court shall act as
secretary to the Chief of the Chief of the Montgomery County
Police force, as same may be created by law, that he shall keep
the records of such Montgomery County Police force and shall
be the general office representative of such Montgomery County
Police force.

That the State's Attorney for Montgomery County shall be
paid by the County Commissioners in addition to the salary
now received by said State's Attorney the additional sum of
one thousand dollars per annum for his attendance before the
Police Court.