1324                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 562

CHAPTER 562
(Senate Bill 578)

AN ACT to amend Sections 49, 50, 130 and 131 of Article 26 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume and 1968
Cumulative Supplement), title "Courts," subtitles 'Tensions of
Judges and their Widows," "Municipal Court of Baltimore City,"
and "Court of Special Appeals," respectively, providing that the
pensions of judges of the Circuit Courts, the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City and the Municipal Court of Baltimore, and their
widows, shall apply to judges confirmed by the Senate, as well as
to those elected, and providing for the appointment and confirma-
tion by the Senate of judges of the Court of Special Appeals.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the provisions of Sections 49, 50, 130 and 131 of Article 26 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume and
1968 Cumulative Supplement), title "Courts," subtitles "Pensions of
Judges and their Widows," "Municipal Court of Baltimore City," and
"Court of Special Appeals," respectively, be and they are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, as follows:

49.

(a)   Every [elected] judge of the circuit court for any of the
counties, of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, of the Court of
Appeals of Maryland and of the Court of Special Appeals, who has
been elected by the people or confirmed by the Senate, shall be paid,
after the termination of active service, if he is then at least sixty
years of age or when he becomes sixty years of age, a pension or
salary calculated at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dollars
($750.00) per annum for each year, or any part thereof, of active
service by appointment and election or confirmation as a judge of
the circuit court for any of the counties, of the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City, of the Court of Appeals of Maryland and of the
Court of Special Appeals, up to and including sixteen years of such
active service, so that the maximum pension or salary for such serv-
ice payable hereunder to any one person shall not exceed the sum of
twelve thousand dollars ($12,000.00) per annum.

(b)   In addition to the payment of a pension or salary of seven
hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00) for each year of service, each
judge of the Court of Appeals shall be allowed one hundred dollars
($100.00) for each year of service as a member of the Court of
Appeals but, in no event, shall the total pension or salary exceed
thirteen thousand six hundred dollars ($13,600.00).

(c)  In addition to the payment of a pension or salary of seven
hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00) for each year of service, each
judge of the Court of Special Appeals shall be allowed fifty dollars
($50.00) for each year of service as a member of the Court of
Special Appeals, but in no event, shall the total pension or salary
exceed twelve thousand e