SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       587

Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement
Volume and 1966 Supplement), title "Justices of the Peace," sub-
titles "Civil Jurisdiction," "Criminal Jurisdiction," and "Trial
Magistrates System," respectively, be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, and new Sections 25G and 125D
be and they are hereby added to said Article and title of said Code,
subtitles, "Criminal Jurisdiction" and "Trial Magistrate," respec-
tively, and to follow immediately after Sections 25F and 125C, re-
spectively, and new Sections 288B to 288-O, inclusive, are hereby
added to the Code of Local Laws of Cecil County (1961 Edition, being
Article 8 of the Code of Local Laws of Maryland), title "Cecil
County," to follow immediately after Section 288A thereof, and to be
under new subtitle "People's Court," and all to read as follows:

6.

(d) Trial magistrates of Allegany, Cecil, and Queen Anne's
Counties shall have civil jurisdiction in all cases hereinbefore men-
tioned in this section, instituted after June 1, 1959, in Allegany
County; after June 1, 1955, in Cecil County; after June 1, 1959,
in Queen Anne's 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 magis-
trate when sitting in Elkton may try cases involving in excess of
$100.00. From and after June 1, 1967, the civil jurisdiction vested
in justices of the peace designated as trial magistrates in Cecil
County shall be transferred to and vested in the People's Court of
said county as established in the local laws thereof; and in addition
the court shall have jurisdiction in all such cases where the amount
in controversy does not exceed the amount set in the local laws.

18.

Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, in any
case where a justice of the peace in and for Queen Anne's, Prince
George's, Carroll, Kent and Charles counties and the judge of the
People's Court for Cecil County has sentenced a person to pay a fine
or costs or both fine and costs, said justice of the peace shall have
power, in his discretion, to order that said person pay said fine
and/or costs in installments of such amounts and at such times
and upon such conditions as said justice of the peace may fix. Said
justices of the peace may at any time revise, modify, reduce or en-
large the amount of said installments or the time and conditions
fixed for payment of the same. Should the defendant fail to pay any
installment or fail to comply with any condition imposed as afore-
said, said justice of the peace may order said defendant committed
to jail to work out the balance remaining unpaid in accordance
with the provisions of any law authorizing commitment in default
of payment of fine and/or costs.

In cases where a justice of the peace acting pursuant to the
authority conferred by this section shall order the defendant to pay
a fine and/or costs in installments to a duly authorized and responsible
city or State agency which shall undertake to collect and account
for such installments, he shall not be responsible for the collection
of the same, nor shall his bond be liable for the same, except to
the extent that he or someone acting under his direction (other