640                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 447

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 48 of Article 26 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Supplement), title "Courts," subtitle "Salaries of Judges," be
and it is hereby repealed, and that new Section 48 be and it is hereby
enacted in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the section repealed,
and to read as follows:

48.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle and in addi-
tion to any other annual salary, payment, or supplementation thereof,
the County Commissioners of Washington County are hereby author-
ized and directed to pay to each of the several judges of the Circuit
Court for Washington County two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500.00) annually.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it is the intent of the
Legislature that the several judges of the Circuit Court for Washing-
ton County are to receive as salary the total sum of twenty-two
thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500.00) annually.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.

CHAPTER 447
(House Bill 989)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 97 (a) of
Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume), title "Justices of the Peace," subtitle "Trial Magistrate
System;" and to add a new Section 97 (f) to the said Article of
the Code, to follow immediately after Section 97 (e); to place
committing magistrates in Prince George's County under the
jurisdiction of People's Court.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 97 (a) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume), title "Justices of the Peace," subtitle
"Trial Magistrate System," be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments; that a new Section 97 (f) be and it is
hereby added to the said Article of the Code, to follow immediately
after Section 97 (e) thereof, and all to read as follows:

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 Sec-
tion 108 [; and in Prince George's County, in addition to the afore-