1122 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 460

Cresaptown and one at Barton. The trial Magistrates at
Cumberland shall each receive an annual salary of not
less than $3, 600. 00. The Trial Magistrates at Frostburg
shall each receive an annual salary of not less than
$2, 100. 00. The Trial Magistrate of Cresaptown shall re-
ceive an annual salary of not less than $840. 00. The Trial
Magistrates of Westernport, Lonaconing, Mt. Savage, Mid-
land and Barton shall each receive an annual salary of
not less than $840. 00. All of which said salaries herein-
before provided shall be paid by the County Commission-
ers, said salaries shall be in addition to any salaries now
paid or hereafter to be paid, any of the Trial Magistrates
by any of the incorporated Cities and Towns in Allegany
County, but the County Commissioners may, in their dis-
cretion, increase the compensation paid to the Trial Magis-
trates in Allegany County.

At least one of the Trial Magistrates at Cumberland
and Frostburg shall be present in his court room for the
trial of cases from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. each day except
Sundays, the afternoon of Saturday and legal holidays,
and shall be present at such other times as the said Magis-
trates may decide upon, and as may be consistent with the
public business.

(Washington County. ) There shall be five Trial Mag-
istrates, two of whom shall sit at Hagerstown and receive
an annual salary of $3, 000. 00 each, one of whom shall sit
at Hancock and receive an annual salary of $1, 000. 00 and
one of whom shall sit at Boonsboro and receive an annual
salary of $1, 000. 00, and one of whom shall sit at Williams-
port and receive an annual salary of $1, 000. 00. The Mag-
istrate at Hancock shall sit not less than two days or parts
thereof in each week at Clear Spring, and the Magistrate
at Boonsboro shall sit not less than two days or parts
thereof in each week at Smithsburg. The Magistrate at
Williamsport shall sit not less than two days or parts
thereof in each week at Sharpsburg.

One-fourth of the salaries of said Trial Magistrates sit-
ting in the City of Hagerstown shall be paid by the Mayor
and Council of Hagerstown; the other three-fourths of
said salaries shall be paid by the County Commissioners
for Washington County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety and having been passed by a yea and nay vote sup-
ported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each