1372                             Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 775

of [the circuit;] said court: namely, one clerk each for Rockville,
Bethesda, and Silver Spring. The appointment of said chief clerk
shall be made by said judges at such time as agreed upon by said
judges and the County Council for Montgomery County and shall be
made every four years thereafter and the appointment of said clerks
for the branches of said court shall be made at the expiration of the
terms of office of the present clerks of said court and every four years
thereafter. Said chief clerk [Such clerks] shall keep all dockets of
and supervise and manage the central office of said court [.] , which
shall be located in Rockville and shall supervise the administration
of the branch offices of said court located in Rockville, Bethesda,
and Silver Spring. Each of said clerks of the several branches of said
court shall manage their respective offices under the supervision of
paid chief clerk. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
dockets and records of arrest and convictions in traffic violations,
and all other traffic records, shall be kept by the chief clerk and
several branch clerks in such form and under such plan as may jointly
be agreed upon by the chief judge of the People's Court of Mont-
gomery County and the Department of Motor Vehicles. Each of said
branch clerks shall make a daily report of all traffic convictions AND
OTHER DISPOSITION OF CASES to the said chief CHIEF clerk and
said chief clerk [Each clerk] shall make proper report at periodic in-
tervals of all traffic convictions AND OTHER DISPOSITION OF
CASES to the Department of Motor Vehicles in accordance with such
agreed plain, and, together therewith, said chief clerk shall make re-
mittance of all revenues due the State of Maryland from traffic viola-
tion fines and costs to the Department of Motor vehicles. The depart-
ment of finance of Montgomery County shall regularly audit the ac-
counts and records of the chief clerk and said branch clerks and shall
furnish the Department of Motor Vehicles and the State Comptroller
regularly a certificate attesting to the fact that an audit verification
of traffic violation fines and costs imposed in the People's Court of
Montgomery County has been made, and that all fines and costs due
the State of Maryland have been remitted to the Department of Motor
Vehicles. Each of said branch clerks shall have custody of all monies
paid into the court for any purpose and shall deposit such monies
promptly in an account in [his] the name of the chief clerk in Mont-
gomery County; upon deposit in said account or accounts, the chief
clerk shall have custody of all such monies. Each branch clerk shall
report promptly to the chief clerk all fines, forfeitures and costs and
shall report any funds in his custody. The chief [each] clerk shall
prepare, sign and deliver with appropriate remittances to county and
state officials such reports of fines, forfeitures and costs as are
required of trial magistrates by law. [; each clerk shall report the
funds in his custody regardless of which judge or judges may from
time to time preside in the court;] The chief clerk and the several
branch clerks shall perform such other duties as shall be properly
assigned to them by the judges of the People's Court, and they shall
receive such salary as shall be fixed by the County Council of said
County in equal monthly installments; the chief clerk before entering
upon his duties shall give bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty
of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) and the said branch clerks
before entering upon their duties shall each give bond to the State
of Maryland in the penalty of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,-
000.00); said bonds shall have [with] corporate sureties satis-
factory to said County Council, the premium of said bonds to be paid