274                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 193

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 104 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Trial Mag-
istrates System", as said section was re-enacted by Chapter 627 of
the Acts of 1953, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

104. (Clerks.) The County Commissioners shall provide such
clerical assistance, and pay such compensation therefor, as said
Commissioners may deem reasonably necessary for any Trial Mag-
istrate. The appointment of clerical assistants shall be made by the
Trial Magistrate to be thus served, when provision therefor is made
by the County Commissioners; except that in Montgomery, Alle-
gany, Baltimore, Kent, Carroll and Prince George's Counties such
clerical assistants shall be appointed by the County Commissioners
of said Counties. In counties in which provision is made by the
County Commissioners for clerical assistants, the Trial Magistrates
shall direct and supervise the services to be rendered by said assist-
ants. In Anne Arundel County the clerks shall also act as filing
clerks for the Police Department with respect to all civil proceed-
ings and shall receive such compensation as may be provided by the
County Commissioners but not less than Eight Hundred Dollars
($800) nor more than Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500) per year.
In Kent County, the clerk to the Trial Magistrate of said County
shall receive a salary of Ten Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($1,050)
per year, payable in equal monthly installments.

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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, SUPPORTED BY
THREE-FIFTHS OF ALL THOSE MEMBERS ELECTED TO
EACH OF THE TWO HOUSES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
THE SAME SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM THE DATE OF ITS
PASSAGE.

Approved March 29,1955.

CHAPTER 193
(Senate Bill 332)

AN ACT to add new Section 39 (g) to Article 2B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Alcoholic Beverages",
sub-title "General Provisions on Issue of Licenses", to follpw
immediately after Section 39 (f) thereof, relating to the definition
of the word "person" in Queen Anne's County.

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