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them for taking acknowledgments or affidavits unrelated to their
civil or criminal jurisdiction.

112.

(a). The county commissioners shall provide such clerical as-
sistance, 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 super-
vise the services to be rendered by said assistants. In Anne Arundel
County the clerks shall also act as filing clerks for the police depart-
ment 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 Baltimore County the clerks
shall also act as Committing Magistrates and shall be appointed by
the Governor as more specifically provided by Section 97 of this Ar-
ticle; the annual salaries of such clerks shall be paid by the County
and shall be no less than the amounts paid to each such clerk as of
January 1, 1959. 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.

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

Approved April 3, 1959.

CHAPTER 373
(Senate Bill 286)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Article 4 of the Constitution
of Maryland, title "Judiciary Department", by adding new Section
41C thereto, to follow immediately after Section 41B thereof, to
be under the new sub-title "Part V-B—Municipal Court", creating
a Municipal Court for Baltimore City and relating to the number,
selection, qualification and duties of said Court, its jurisdiction

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.