1086 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 632

411 A. (1) Every county employee engaged in the construc-
tion or maintenance of county roads or bridges shall be under
the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the County Road
Engineer.

(2) Such employees shall receive not less than the hourly
wage rate paid to State employees engaged in similar work on
State Highways in Talbot County.

(3) Each such employee who has worked under the County
Road Engineer for at least one year shall receive the same
vacation, with pay, at a time to be designated by said Engi-
neer, and shall also be entitled to the same sick leave, with
pay, in each year to which employees of the State Roads Com-
mission with the same or similar classification are entitled.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1941.

Approved May 2, 1941.

CHAPTER 632.
(House Bill 288)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 52 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Justices of the
Peace", sub-title "Trial Magistrates System", said new sec-
tion to be known as Section 109A and to follow immedi-
ately after Section 109 of said Article, relating to removal
of cases from one trial magistrate to another trial magis-
trate in the same county and to repeal all public general
and public local laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article
52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title
"Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Trial Magistrates System",
said new section to be known as Section 109A, to follow
immediately after Section 109 of said Article, and to read as
follows:

109A. Removal of Cases.

(a) Any defendant in a civil or criminal case pending before
any trial magistrate may have the case removed to another
trial magistrate in the same county by filing at any time before
trial an affidavit, executed by the defendant or his agent or
attorney before any person authorized to administer oaths,