J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     1247

Council", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

38. The appropriation for the Legislative Council, which for
budget purposes shall be treated as a legislative expense, may be ex-
pended, in accordance with the budget.

(1)  To compensate the members of the Council [at the rate of
twenty dollars] and of its committees for each day spent in at-
tendance at sessions of the Council, or of subcommittees thereof,
and actual traveling expenses incurred while so attending.

(2)  To pay to the experts, assistants, stenographers, and other
persons and research agencies employed by the director of research,
such compensation as he shall fix, subject to the approval of the
Council.

(3)  To pay for necessary stationery and supplies and printing
for the Council and research division.

(4)  To reimburse witnesses required to appear before the Council
by its order, and members of unpaid committees appointed by the
Council, for actual traveling and hotel expenses incurred in attend-
ing any session of the Council or of any such committee.

(5)  To pay a salary of not less than four thousand dollars
($4,000.00) per year to a full-time assistant to the director of re-
search, said position to be appointed by the director of research and
said assistant to serve at the pleasure of said director of research.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved April 30, 1963.

CHAPTER 571
(Senate Bill 598)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 20 of
Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title
"Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Criminal Jurisdiction", pro-
viding for the supervision by the Department of Parole and Pro-
bation of certain conditions of suspension of sentence imposed by
trial magistrates in Talbot County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 20 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Criminal
Jurisdiction", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

20. In Talbot County all trial magistrates shall have and possess
the power and authority to suspend sentence or costs or both sentence
and costs either generally or upon condition for a definite time,
in any case within their jurisdiction, provided that such suspension
is made at the trial of the case and not after judgment is pronounced;
and said trial magistrate may make such orders and impose such