SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1593

a violation of any motor vehicle law. The court to which such appeal
is taken shall hear the case de novo and determine the same accord-
ing to law and the equity and right of the matter. This section
shall be construed to include all actions of debt for the collection of
fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by any law of the State or
by any ordinance of any incorporated city or town of the State,
and which are made recoverable before a justice of the peace, in
which a right of appeal may not be given by the law imposing same;
and this section shall also be construed to include all causes of any
kind or nature triable before any justice of the peace.

If an appeal is taken from a conviction imposing a fine or other
monetary penalty in a criminal case, the trial magistrate shall
transmit the fine, costs or other monetary penalty so levied to the
clerk of the circuit court to which said appeal is taken. In the event
of acquittal or of the levy of a fine (including costs) by the circuit
court in a sum less than that levied by the magistrate, the entire
fine or the surplus held by the clerk in excess of the fine levied
by the circuit court, as the case may be, shall be returned to the
defendant. All fines levied by the circuit court hereunder shall be
be paid by the said clerk to the county commissioners as provided
in this section. In the event of a dismissal of an appeal by the
defendant before trial in the circuit court, the clerk shall pay the
fine, costs, or other monetary penalty so deposited with him to the
county commissioners as hereinabove provided.

In the event an appeal is taken from a conviction for a violation
of the motor vehicle laws, the trial magistrate shall transmit the
fine, costs, or other monetary penalty levied in such case to the clerk
of the circuit court to which said appeal is taken. In the event
of acquittal or the levy of a fine (including costs) by the
circuit court in a sum less than that levied by the magistrate, the
entire fine or the surplus held by the clerk in excess of the fine
levied by the circuit court, as the case may be, shall be returned to
the defendant. All fines levied by the circuit court for motor vehicle
violations shall be paid by the clerk of the circuit court to the
Department of Motor Vehicles. In the event of the dismissal of an
appeal by the defendant before trial in the circuit court the said
clerk shall pay the fine, costs, or other monetary penalty so de-
posited with him to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved May 4, 1967.

CHAPTER 730
(House Bill 449)

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County Commissioners of
Charles County to borrow upon the faith and credit of said County
an amount not exceeding Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,-
000), and to issue bonds therefor, for the purpose of contributing