SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        1317

shall regularly audit the accounts and records of said clerk and

shall furnish the Department of Motor Vehicles and the State

Comptroller regularly a certificate attesting to the fact that an audit
verification of traffic violation fines and costs imposed in the People's

Court has been made, and that all fines and costs imposed in the
People's Court has been made, and that all fines and costs due the

State of Maryland have been remitted to the Department of Motor

Vehicles. Each clerk shall have custody of all monies paid into

the court for any purpose and shall deposit such monies promptly

in an account in his name in Prince George's County; each clerk
shall prepare, sign and deliver with appropriate remittance to county

and State officials such reports of fines, forfeitures and costs as are
required of trial magistrates by law; each clerk shall report the

funds in his custody regardless of which judge or judges may from

time to time preside in the court; the clerks shall perform such

other duties as shall be properly assigned to them by the judges

of the People's Court, and they shall receive such salary as shall be

fixed by the County Commissioners of said county; the said chief

clerks before entering upon their duties shall each give bond to

the State of Maryland on the penalty of twenty-five thousand dol-
lars ($25,000.00) with corporate sureties satisfactory to said County
Commissioners, the premium of said bonds to be paid by the County
Commissioners of Prince George's County. The County Commis-

sioners of Prince George's County shall provide such additional

clerical help and personnel as may be necessary to carry out the

administrative work of said court. All clerical help and personnel

with the exception of the three chief clerks, the Deputy Clerk for
the Community] Committing Magistrates, and the Justices of the
Peace, are to be employed under and paid in accordance with the
Merit System Regulations effective in Prince George's County.

Each of the People's Court Judges shall be considered the depart-

ment head with respect to the People's Court over which he pre-

sides.

(e) AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE TERM OF OFFICE
OF THE PRESENT CLERKS OF THE TRIAL MAGISTRATE
COURTS FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, AND EVERY
FOUR YEARS THEREAFTER, THERE SHALL BE AP-
POINTED BY EACH THE CHIEF JUDGE A CHIEF CLERK.
THERE SHALL BE THREE CHIEF CLERKS WHO SHALL BE
EMPLOYED FOR THE PEOPLE'S COURT. SUCH CHIEF
CLERKS SHALL KEEP ALL DOCKETS OF AND SUPERVISE
AND MANAGE THE OFFICE OF SAID COURT. NOTWITH-
STANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, THE DOCKETS
AND RECORDS OF ARRESTS AND CONVICTIONS IN TRAF-
FIC VIOLATIONS, AND ALL OTHER TRAFFIC RECORDS,
SHALL BE KEPT BY THE CHIEF CLERKS IN SUCH FORM
AND UNDER SUCH PLAN AS MAY JOINTLY BE AGREED
UPON BY THE JUDGES OF THE PEOPLE'S COURT AND THE
DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES. EACH CHIEF CLERK
SHALL MAKE PROPER REPORT AT PERIODIC INTERVALS
OF ALL TRAFFIC CONVICTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
MOTOR VEHICLES IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH AGREED
PLAN, AND, TOGETHER THEREWITH, SHALL MAKE REMIT-
TANCE OF ALL REVENUES DUE THE STATE OF MARYLAND
FROM TRAFFIC VIOLATION FINES AND COSTS TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES. THE INTERNAL