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of Motor Vehicles for the privilege of the use of the highways by
such house trailers.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved March 11, 1959.

CHAPTER 171
(Senate Bill 268)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 112 (a)
of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Trial Magistrates System",
changing the method of appointment of clerical assistants in
Carroll County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 112 (a) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1957 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Trial
Magistrates System", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

112.

(a) The county commissioners shall provide such clerical assist-
ance, and pay such compensation therefor, as said commissioners
may deem reasonably necessary for any trial magistrate. The ap-
pointment 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, Allegany, 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 assistants. In Anne Arundel County
the clerks shall also act as filing clerks for the police department with
respect to all civil proceedings 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 twenty-four hundred dollars
($2,400) per year, payable in equal monthly installments. The County
Commissioners of Kent County are hereby authorized to increase said
compensation.

The said clerk in Kent County shall be present in the magistrate's
office Monday through Friday of each week from 9 A. M. through 4
P. M. and any other times the trial magistrate holds court.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.