J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1307

such additional employees as the Chief Judge may from time to time
deem necessary, who shall receive such salaries as are provided in
the annual county budget. The Chief Clerk with the approval of the
Chief Judge, shall make the appointments to all such positions and
shall supervise and direct the work thereof.

(b)   The Chief Judge shall appoint a full time bailiff who shall
receive an annual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400).

(c)  The county commissioners of Howard County are authorized
and directed to annually appropriate an amount sufficient for the
proper and effective administration and housing of the People's
Court.

152L. Any defendant, or his agent, or his attorney, who shall
make suggestion in writing, upon oath, that he does not believe such
defendant can have a fair and impartial trial in any case pending
for trial before a Judge, shall have the right at any time before trial,
upon making said written suggestion and oath to the Judge before
whom the case is pending for trial, to have the pending case removed
for trial to the other Judge; the said Judge shall forthwith transfer
all papers and a record of his proceedings in the case to the other
Judge for disposition.

152M. The laws which have been enacted previously concerning
the right of appeal from justices of the peace and justices of the peace
designated as trial magistrates in Howard County shall continue in
all respects to be effective as the People's Court of Howard County
herein created.

152N. Any Judge of the People's Court may be removed or retired
from office under the same conditions and provisions as apply to
Judges of the Circuit Court in this State.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the jurisdiction, powers,
duties, responsibility and authority conferred upon the trial magis-
trates of Howard County as now provided by law shall continue in
effect until January 1, 1965, and from and after that date, upon ap-
pointment of the Judges of the People's Court as provided herein,
and their qualification, the Judges of the People's Court shall assume
their duties and jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of
this Act, and the said trial magistrates shall forthwith transfer and
deliver all dockets, books of account and other records of every kind
kept in their official capacity to the Chief Judge of the People's Court.
From and after January 1, 1965, the offices, positions, and salaries of
the trial magistrates of Howard County and the offices, positions and
salaries of all clerks, constables, and other personnel theretofore ap-
pointed or employed by or on account of the said trial magistrates
shall stand abolished.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the county commissioners
are authorized to provide out of the general funds of the county or
any general fund surplus, such amounts as may be necessary to the
proper administration of this Act prior to the adoption of the next
annual county budget.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws,
public general or public local, inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act, are hereby repealed to the extent of any such inconsistency.