SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       607

County shall make a Circuit (except for Juvenile Causes) to pro-
vide for the number and salaries and generally for the administra-
tion of the Clerks of the People's Court for Montgomery County,
and to provide for the relocation of Clerks of the Branches of said
Court in accordance with the Chief Judges' determination.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That subsections (15) (d) and (15) (h) of Section 108 of Article 52
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Supplement), title "Jus-
tices of the Peace," subtitle "Trial Magistrates System," be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

108.

(15) (d) The Judges of the People's Court of Montgomery County
except the People's Court Judges for Juvenile Causes, [shall] may
make a circuit, sitting in Rockville, Bethesda and Silver Spring,
as often and for such periods of time as [may be required by the work
of the court; provided that one judge shall sit in Takoma Park at
least part of one day each week for the trial of traffic and criminal
cases] the Chief Judge may determine. In the event the Court does
not make a circuit, neither the provisions of Subparagraphs (f) and
(h) hereof, nor any other provision of law, shall be held to require the
maintenance of branch offices or to require the Court to make a circuit
between any particular locations.

(h) The judges of the People's Court shall appoint a chief clerk for
the People's Court of Montgomery County, a deputy chief clerk
thereof who, when duly qualified as such, and in the absence of the
chief clerk, shall have the power and authority to act in the place
and stead of the chief clerk, and a clerk for each branch of said
court: namely, one clerk each for Rockville, Bethesda, and Silver
Spring. The appointment of said chief clerk and deputy chief clerk
shall be made by said judges at such time as agreed upon by said
judges and the County Council for Montgomery County and shall be
made every four years thereafter and the appointment of said clerks
for the branches of said court shall be made at the expiration of the
terms of office of the present clerks of said court and every four years
thereafter. Said chief clerk shall keep all dockets of and supervise
and manage the central office of said court, which shall be located in
Rockville and shall supervise the administration of the branch offices
of said court located in Rockville, Bethesda, and Silver Spring. Each
of said clerks of the several branches of said court shall manage their
respective offices under the supervision of said chief clerk. Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the dockets and records of arrest
and convictions in traffic violations, and all other traffic records,
shall be kept by the chief clerk and several branch clerks in such
form and under such plan as may jointly be agreed upon by the chief
judge of the People's Court of Montgomery County and the Depart-
ment of Motor Vehicles. Each of said branch clerks shall make a
daily report of all traffic convictions and other disposition of cases
to the said chief clerk and said chief clerk shall make proper report
at periodic intervals of all traffic convictions and other disposition
of cases to the Department of Motor Vehicles in accordance with such
agreed plan, and, together therewith, said chief clerk shall make
remittance of all revenues due the State of Maryland from traffic