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summons requiring him to appear on a day to be named
therein before said Justice of the Peace, Police Justice or
Trial Magistrate or if in Baltimore City before the Jus-
tice of the Peace of the Traffic Court, and the person so
arrested shall signify his willingness to appear before the
Justice of the Peace, Trial Magistrate, Police Justice, or Jus-
tice of the Peace of the Traffic Court if in Baltimore City,
named in said summons on the day therein, by endorsing his
name and address on said summons, and failing so to appear,
the said Justice of the Peace, Trial Magistrate, Police Justice,
or Justice of the Peace of the Traffic Court, as the case may
be, before whom said summons is made returnable shall issue
a warrant for the arrest of said person or in lieu of said
warrant shall send by registered mail with return receipt
requested a second summons to the violator at his last known
address setting the case for trial on a date at least two weeks
subsequent to the original date of trial. In the event the
violator fails to appear for trial on such subsequent date the
Justice of the Peace, Trial Magistrate, Police Justice, or Jus-
tice of the Peace of the Traffic Court, as the case may be,
shall certify to the Department the fact that the violator has
failed to appear for trial though duly summoned and it shall
be the duty of the Department to summons the violator before
it to show cause why the operator's or chauffeur's licenses and.
registration card of said violator should not be suspended until
the final disposition of the charges then pending against said
violator.

288. (Magistrates' Salaries. ) The Governor shall designate
one of said Justices to be known as Chief Magistrate of the
Traffic Court whose duties shall be to care for the general
business of said Court and to have complete charge of the
administration thereof with supervisory control over the sev-
eral clerks and other employees assigned thereto.

The Governor shall designate four or more of said Justices
to be known as Magistrates of the Traffic Court.

The salaries of all Traffic Court Magistrates shall be such as
shall be provided for in the State Budget.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 29, 1945.

CHAPTER 507.
(House Bill 440)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 723-741, inclusive, of Article 3
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edi-