1702                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 789

judge or as may be 'prescribed by rule or by law. Each chief admin-
istrative clerk shall perform such duties in the administration of
the District Court as may be assigned him by the administrative
judge of his district or as may be prescribed by rule or by law.
There shall be in each County a clerk of the District Court whose
appointment, term, and compensation shall be prescribed by law.
The Chief Judge of the District Court, upon recommendation of the
respective administrative judges, shall appoint such deputy clerks,
constables, and other officers of the District Court as may be neces-
sary. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to prescribe by
law a fixed compensation for all such officers.

41G.

There shall be district court commissioners in the number and
with the qualifications and compensation prescribed by law. Com-
missioners in a district shall be appointed by and serve at the
pleasure of the Administrative Judge of the district, subject to the
approval of the Chief Judge of the District Court. Commissioners
may exercise power only with respect to warrants of arrest, or bail
or collateral or other terms of pre-trial release pending hearing, or
incarceration pending hearing, and then only as prescribed by law
or by rule.

41H.

The salary of a judge of the District Court shall not be reduced
during his continuance in office.

41-I.

For the purpose of implementing the amendments to Articles IV,
XV and XVII of this Constitution, establishing the District Court, the
following provisions shall govern.

(a)  If for any reason these amendments are not submitted for
adoption or rejection by the legal and qualified voters of the State in
November, 1969, but are submitted to such voters in 1970, then when-
ever a day of a month in the year 1970 is used in these amendments
it shall mean the same day and month in the year 1971.

(b)   Unless specifically otherwise provided, each of said amend-
ments shall take effect on the first Monday in July, 1970, except those
pertaining to the offices of chief judge and chief clerk of the District
Court, which said offices shall be created and which said provisions
shall take effect on January MAY 1, 1970. On or within ten days
after that date, the Governor shall appoint some person qualified
under Section 2 of this Article as the first Chief Judge of the District
Court, but all subsequent Chief Judges shall be designated as pro-
vided in Section 41D of this Article IV.

(c)   The General Assembly by law may postpone the effective date
of these amendments in any District or Districts which include a
county not having a full time People's Court, but only if the County
Commissioners or Council of any such County comprising a District,
or part thereof, by resolution adopted by them and concurred in