22 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 19

may be deemed proper; and if the convict is a minor the said
Judge of the People's Court may also make such orders as to his
detention in any care or custody as may deemed proper.

54I. Said Judge of the People's Court shall sit, and said
Court shall be open for the conduct of business from 9: 00 A. M.
until 4: 00 P. M. each day, Sundays, Legal Holidays excepted;
the said Judge of the People's Court may determine the time
for regular sittings for the hearing of criminal and police cases;
and he may sit at any time he may consider necessary for the
disposal of emergency cases.

Said Judge of the People's Court shall have the right to estab-
lish rules for the conduct of his proceedings, and he is hereby
authorized and empowered to punish by a fine not exceeding
Ten Dollars any person guilty of disorderly conduct in his
presence when a case is being heard; he shall have a right to
punish any person summoned as a witness who shall refuse or
fail to appear by a fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars; and
he may issue an attachment for any person summoned as a wit-
ness who fails to appear.

Said Judge of the People's Court shall enter up judgment in
all cases brought or tried before him within ten days after a
final hearing of the case.

54J. There shall be appointed by the said Judge for the
term of two years and each two years thereafter, a Clerk for
said the People's Court; said Clerk shall receive and annual
salary of Eighteen Hundred Dollars, payable monthly by the
County Commissioners of Wicomico County; said Clerk shall
attend said Judge of the People's Court and shall perform such
duties as shall be assigned to him by said Judge; he is hereby
empowered to administer oaths in any manner before said Court,
and, in the name of the Judge of the People's Court and under
the seal of said Court, to issue all process of said Court; all
costs, fines, and fees shall be paid to said Clerk and he shall
accurately account for same and monthly remit the same to the
County Commissioners of Wicomico County, and remit such
fines to such other authority as. they may be payable under
existing law; said Clerk, before entering upon his duties, shall
give bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty of $5, 000. 00,
with corporate surety, the premium to be paid by. the County
Commissioners of Wicomico County; the condition of said bond
shall be that said Clerk shall well and truly account for and
remit all monies coming into his hands each month to the County
Treasurer of Wicomico County, or to such other proper author-
ity as may be entitled thereto by existing law; said Clerk may
be removed from office by the Governor upon refusal to perform
his duties or for misconduct or neglect.