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11. Separability

If any provision of this sub-heading, or the application thereof to
any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the
sub-heading and the application of such provision to persons or
circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall
not be affected thereby. The powers conferred by this sub-heading
shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any
other law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved May 3, 1961,

CHAPTER 761
(House Bill 923)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 97 and
110 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1960 Sup-
plement), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Trial Magistrates
System", relating to the salary, hours, and service of committing
magistrates in Charles County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 97 and 110 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1960 Supplement), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title
"Trial Magistrates System", be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

97.

The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
shall appoint for each county in the State one or more justices of the
peace to be known as "committing magistrates", and such number of
justices of the peace at large in the several counties, to be designated
"trial magistrates", as is hereinafter specified in Section 108; and
in Prince George's County, in addition to the aforegoing, seven jus-
tices of the peace, at large, who shall be committing magistrates and
shall have all the powers and jurisdiction in the whole of said county,
vested by law in justices of the peace other than trial magistrates
and substitute trial magistrates; and in Baltimore County the number
of committing magistrates shall be no less than equal to the num-
ber of magistrate courts specifically mentioned in Section 108 of
this article and each such committing magistrate shall also perform
"the duties" of the clerk of the magistrate's court to which he is
assigned by his appointment, all of which appointments are to be
made by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate.

Any trial magistrate or substitute trial magistrate appointed

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