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(d)    The award of scholarships under this section shall com-
mence in fiscal 1966-67, and shall continue thereafter; provided that
no more than fifteen persons in all of the several categories may
hold scholarships at any one time.

(e)    The County Commissioners are authorized and empowered
to appropriate funds for scholarships hereunder from the General
Funds of Charles County.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved April 29, 1966.

CHAPTER 404
(House Bill 396)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 6(d) of
Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume), title "Justices of the Peace," subtitle "Civil Jurisdiction,"
and to add new Section 6(q) to said Article, title and subtitle of the
Code, to follow immediately after Section 6(p) thereof; to increase
the monetary limitation of civil jurisdiction of the trial magistrate
of Charles County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 6(d) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume) title "Justices of the Peace," subtitle
"Civil Jurisdiction," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, and that new Section 6(q) be and it is hereby added to
said Article, title and subtitle of the Code, to follow immediately after
Section 6(p) thereof, and all to read as follows:

6.

(d) Trial magistrates of Allegany, Cecil, [Charles,] Washington
and Queen Anne's counties shall have civil jurisdiction in all cases
hereinbefore mentioned in this section instituted after June 1, 1959, in
Allegany County, after June 1, 1955, in Cecil County, [after June 1,
1951, in Charles County,] after June 1, 1953, in Washington County,
and after June 1, 1959, in Queen Anne's County, and after June 1,
1963, in Frederick County and involving amounts not exceeding five
hundred dollars, except that in Cecil County cases involving in excess
of $100.00 may be tried only before the trial magistrate who sits in
Elkton, provided, however, that the substitute trial magistrate when
sitting in Elkton may try cases involving in excess of $100.00.

(q) Trial magistrates of Charles County shall have civil jurisdic-
tion in all cases hereinbefore mentioned in this section, instituted after
June 1, 1966, and involving amounts not exceeding $1,000.00.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved April 29, 1966.