294 LAWS OF MARYLAND. CH. 225

CHAPTER 224.

(Senate Bill 312)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, sub-
section (Dorchester County) of Section 100 of Article
52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition),
title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Trial Magis-
trates System", providing for an additional trial magis-
trate in Dorchester County and for his compensation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That sub-section (Dorchester County) of Sec-
tion 100 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title
"Trial Magistrates System", be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

100.

(Dorchester County. ) There shall be two trial magis-
trates, one of whom shall sit at Cambridge and shall re-
ceive an annual salary of $2, 100. 00. The said magistrate
shall appoint a clerk, who shall receive an annual salary of
$1, 200. 00, payable monthly, the said salary to be paid by
the County Commissioners of Dorchester County. The
other trial magistrate shall sit at Hurlock and hold ses-
sions on at least three days in each week and shall receive
an annual salary of $500. 00.

SEC. 2, And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
being passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 28, 1941.

CHAPTER 225.

(Senate Bill 280)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 11 of Article 13 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
1939 Edition), title "Bills of Exchange and Promissory
Notes", sub-title "Legal Holidays", providing that Satur-
days shall not be legal half-holidays in Baltimore County.