J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      831

Code, title "Governor—Executive and Administrative Departments",
and the clerks shall be relieved of the responsibility of delivering
transcripts of such papers after they have been disposed of as au-
thorized above. The dockets of justices of the peace shall be retained
permanently.]

(a)   Whenever a justice of the peace, trial magistrate or judge of
the People's Court shall vacate his office by resignation, removal
from office, or the expiration of his official term, OR BY REASON
OF REORGANIZATION OF THE LOWER COURT SYSTEM IN
WHICH HE HAS HELD OFFICE, his dockets, together with all the
notes, bonds, accounts and papers appertaining to judgments or
whereupon suits have been entered, shall be retained by the clerk of
the court over which the judge presided. OR ANY SUCCESSOR
COURT.

The clerks having custody of such dockets and papers shall keep
the same as other records and shall deliver transcripts from the
dockets or papers to any person applying for same, except that
papers which have been in custody of the clerks for a period of three

(3) years or longer, motor vehicle dockets which have been in the

custody of the clerks for a period of five (5) years or longer, and civil
and criminal dockets which have been in the custody of the clerks for

a period of twenty-four (24) years or longer CIVIL AND CRIM-

INAL DOCKETS WHICH HAVE BEEN IN THE CUSTODY OF
THE CLERKS FOR A PERIOD OF TWENTY FOUR (24) YEARS
OR LONGER. MOTOR VEHICLE DOCKETS WHICH HAVE
BEEN IN THE CUSTODY OF THE CLERKS FOR A PERIOD OF
FIVE (5) YEARS OR LONGER, AND ANY OTHER PAPERS
WHICH HAVE BEEN IN THE CUSTODY OF THE CLERKS
FOR A PERIOD OF THREE (3) YEARS OR LONGER may be dis-
posed of in accordance with the provisions of Sections 177, 178 and
180 of Article 41 of this Code, title "Governor—Executive and Ad-
ministrative Departments", and the clerks shall be relieved of the
responsibility of delivering transcripts of such dockets and papers
after they have been disposed of as authorized above.

(b)  The papers and dockets now in the custody of the clerk of the
circuit courts for the several counties or the clerk of the Superior
Court of Baltimore City may also be destroyed in accordance with
the provisions of subsection (a) of this section.

(C) ANY RECORDS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
HEREIN SHALL BE DELIVERED TO THE CLERK OF THE
CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY, AND SUCH CLERKS
SHALL KEEP THE SAME AS OTHER RECORDS AND SHALL
DELIVER TRANSCRIPTS FROM THE SAME TO ANY PERSON
APPLYING THEREFOR, EXCEPT THAT SUCH RECORDS MAY
BE DESTROYED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS
OF SUB-SECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION.

114.

The dockets of said magistrates, which they shall have with them
at all of their sessions, shall conform as nearly as practicable to those
used for civil and criminal cases in the circuit courts of the State,
except that in cases under the motor vehicles law they shall use
dockets and report forms furnished them by the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles. [All dockets and papers of trial magistrates shall be