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and Section 200B, and to follow immediately after Section
200 of the said Article 14, fixing the amount of costs in
cases of civil and criminal trials (other than trials for
violations of the provisions of Article 66 1/2 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland) before Trial Magistrates in said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That two new sections be, and they are hereby, added
to Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Howard County", sub-title "Justices
of the Peace and Constables", said new sections to be known
as Section 200A and Section 200B, to follow immediately
after Section 200 of said Article 14, and to read as follows:

200A. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 96 of
Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1947 Supple-
ment), and the provisions of other laws, costs in civil trials
and in criminal trials (other than trials for violations of the
provisions of Article 66 1/2 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
and other than trials for violations of regulations heretofore
or hereafter adopted by the Board of County Commissioners
of Howard County) before Trial Magistrates in said Howard
County shall be Two Dollars (|2. 00) for each case.

200B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 96 of
Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1947 Supple-
ment) and provisions of other laws, the cost in criminal trials
for violations of regulations heretofore or hereafter adopted
by the Board of County Commissioners of Howard County
shall be, in cases where the charge is contested, One Dollar
and Forty-Five Cents ($1. 45), and in cases where the party
charged pleads guilty, Seventy-five Cents ($0. 75).

SEC. 2. And l)e 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, supported by three-
fifths of all of the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1949.

CHAPTER 149
(House Bill 159)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 2, 3 and 7 of Chapter 1051 of the
Acts of 1945, incorporating the Town of College Park, in