1374 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 488

ville; one of said Magistrates shall be designated as Trial
Magistrate at Bethesda and shall sit at Bethesda; and one of
said Magistrates shall be designated as Trial Magistrate at
Silver Spring and Takoma Park and shall sit at Silver Spring
and shall also sit at Takoma Park not less than one day or
part thereof in each week.

[In the event of the absence, illness or disqualification for
any reason of a Trial Magistrate so designated to sit at one
of said places, one of the other two Trial Magistrates shall
be designated by one of the judges of the Circuit Court of
Montgomery County to substitute for and sit for said absent,
ill or disqualified Magistrate at the place having been desig-
nated for the absent, ill or disqualified Magistrate to sit, and
the substituting Magistrate shall then and there try and pass
sentence or judgment in all cases civil or criminal, the same
as the absent, ill or disqualified Magistrate could have done
were he present. ] The Sheriff of Montgomery County, Chief
Deputy, and all other deputies are hereby authorized, directed
and required to serve all civil process issued by said Magis-
trates.

There shall be appointed biennially by each of said Trial
Magistrates a Clerk for his Court who shall keep all dockets
of and supervise and manage the office of said Magistrate and
said Clerk shall perform such other duties as shall be properly
assigned to him by the said Trial Magistrate and he shall
receive such salary as shall be fixed by the [Board of County
Commissioners] County Council of the said county in equal
monthly installments; the said Clerks before entering upon
their duties shall each give bond to the State of Maryland
in the penalty of Five Thousand Dollars ($5, 000. 00) with
corporate surety satisfactory to said [County Commissioners]
County Council the premium of said bonds to be paid by the
[County Commissioners] County Council of Montgomery
County.

[The Sheriff of Montgomery County is hereby authorized
and directed to appoint, with the consent of the Board of
County Commissioners, and from a list of qualified applicants
submitted by the Board of County Commissioners, three dep-
uty sheriffs for said county, in addition to those now provided
by law. Each of said additional deputy sheriffs so appointed
shall be assigned by the said Sheriff to duty in one of the
three Trial Magistrate courts aforesaid and, when so ap-
pointed and assigned, said deputy sheriff shall be under the
direction and supervision of the Trial Magistrate to whom
he is assigned, and shall service any civil process returnable
before said Trial Magistrate, and perform such other and
further duties in connection with said courts as may be