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tive in the State of Virginia, whereupon the Governor of
Maryland shall issue a proclamation declaring the provisions
of this Act to be effective.

Approved May 2, 1941.

CHAPTER 797.

(House Bill 718)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 52 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland (1939 Edition),
title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Trial Magistrates
System", said new section, to be under a subheading "Com-
mitting Magistrates—Prince George's County", to be known
as Section 95A and to follow immediately after Section 95
of the said Article, to provide that, in Prince George's
County, the Justices of the Peace, other than a Trial Mag-
istrate, whose salaries are increased by the County Com-
missioners of said County, under the provisions of Section
103 of Article 52, shall perform the duties of their office
as Committing Magistrates in said County and shall sit for
the performance thereof at such places in said County,
within or without the election districts for which such
Justices of the Peace were severally appointed, and dur-
ing such times as the County Commissioners may designate
in a schedule in providing for the increased compensation:
of such Justices; providing: that the County Commissioners
of said County may furnish quarters and supplies for the
performance of the duties of such Justices as Committing
Magistrates at the places designated in a scheduled to be
adopted by them; providing that the County Commissioners
may designate the Rooms, or any part thereof, assigned to
the County Police Department as the places where such
Justices shall sit as Committing Magistrates; providing that
any such Justice when performing the duties of his office as
Committing Magistrate at a place designated by the Coun-
ty Commissioners as herein provided, if such place be in
an election district of said County other than the election
district for which such Justice was appointed, shall have
all the jurisdiction and authority to perform the duties of
his office in said election district where such place may be
as well as within the election district for which he wag
appointed, as a Committing Magistrate, but not as a Trial
Magistrate; relating to additional powers conferred on such
Justices of the Peace as Committing Magistrates; providing