J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1301

and public general laws; providing for the severability of the pro-
visions of this Act; and relating generally to the establishment of
a People's Court of Howard County on January 1, 1965, and the
transfer to it of the civil and criminal jurisdiction presently ex-
ercised by trial magistrates in said County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 6(g) and 12 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition and 1962 Supplement), title "Justices of the
Peace", sub-title "Civil Jurisdiction", and Sections 97, 108(13), 109,
110 and 119 (b) of said Article, sub-title "Trial Magistrates System",
be and they are hereby repealed; and that a new Section 25C be and
it is hereby added to said Article, sub-title "Criminal Jurisdiction",
to follow immediately after Section 25B thereof; and all to read as
follows:

6(g) Trial magistrates in Howard County shall have civil juris-
diction in all cases hereinbefore mentioned in this section, instituted
after June 1, 1953, and involving amounts not exceeding two hundred
and fifty dollars ($250.00). From and after January 1,1965, the civil
jurisdiction vested in justices of the peace designated as trial magis-
trates in Howard County shall be transferred to and vested in the
People's Court of said County as established in the local laws thereof;
and in addition said Court shall have jurisdiction in all such cases
where the amount in controversy does not exceed the amount set in
said local laws.

12. In all cases where the amount claimed or the thing in action
exceeds the sum or value of fifty dollars and justices of the peace
have jurisdiction, the several circuit courts for the counties shall
have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace, provided
that in Baltimore County and Howard County the jurisdiction of the
justices of the peace shall be exclusive in civil cases involving
amounts not exceeding $300.00.

25C. From and after January 1, 1965, the judges of the People's
Court of Howard County shall have criminal jurisdiction in all cases
hereinbefore conferred upon trial magistrates for Howard County
in this sub-title; and any statutory reference herein to "trial magis-
trate" shall, when relating to said county, be interpreted as meaning
"judges of the People's Court of Howard County".

97.

(a)  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 justices of the peace, at large, who shall be committing magis-
trates 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.

(b)  Any trial magistrate or substitute trial magistrate appointed
pursuant to the provisions of this sub-title, may be removed as such
trial magistrate at any time by the Governor, provided, however,
that in any such event, the trial magistrate who has received notice