962                              Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 616

Two Dollars ($2.00) in cases tried before the Court on a plea of
not guilty.

All fines, penalties, and forfeitures in cases involving violations
of the motor vehicle laws of this State shall be paid to the Commis-
sioner of Motor Vehicles. Fines, penalties, and forfeitures in cases
involving violations of the traffic ordinances of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore shall be paid to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore.

(c)  Other Costs. The Court shall impose such additional costs,
not specifically enumerated above, for those services, and in such
amounts, as were imposed by the Traffic Court of Baltimore City
and the justices of the peace assigned to sit at the station houses in
Baltimore City, as of the day preceding the effective date of this Act.

(d) Disposition on Appeal. If an appeal is taken from a conviction
imposing a fine or other monetary penalty, the Chief Clerk shall
cause the fine, costs, or other monetary penalty levied to be trans-
mitted to the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore. In the
event of acquittal, or of the levy of a fine (including costs) by the
Criminal Court of Baltimore in a sum less than that levied by the
Municipal Court, the entire fine, or the surplus held by the Clerk of
the Criminal Court of Baltimore in excess of the fine levied by the
Criminal Court of Baltimore, as the case may be, shall be returned
to the defendant. All fines, costs or monetary penalties, either levied
by the Criminal Court of Baltimore or left in deposit with the clerk
of that court after such an appeal has been dismissed by the defendant
before trial de novo, shall be paid as provided in Sections 127 and
128 of this Article.

(e)   Accounting.—The Chief Clerk shall file with the City Treas-
urer at least once in each month an account verified by his oath or
affirmation of all fines, forfeitures, and penalties, imposed in said
court during the past month which are payable to the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore. Said accounts shall show the names of
the respective defandants DEFENDANTS, the ordinances or Acts of
Assembly under which said fines, penalties or forfeitures were re-
spectively imposed, and the amounts paid in each case by said re-
spective defendants. At the time of filing any account the Chief Clerk
shall pay over to said Treasurer the amount of said fines, penalties,
and forfeitures so received, less any deductions pursuant to the pro-
visions of Section 127 hereof.

The Chief Clerk shall account for, and pay over, all fines, penalties,
forfeitures and costs, (including any deductions under Section 127
hereof from fines otherwise payable to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore) which are payable to the State of Maryland, in such man-
ner as may be determined by rule or regulation of the Comptroller
OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND.

Refunds shall be paid from such funds as may have been collected
by the Court.

129. Destruction of Records. The Chief Judge may have destroyed
any records of the Traffic Division of the Court which are more
than three years old.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Article 5, of the An-