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receive compensation and benefits the same as county employees
under pay scale #7 in the county employees' classification system.
He shall also appoint four additional full-time deputy sheriffs after
July 1, 1968, who shall each receive an annual salary of [$7,000]
$7,500 for their first year of employment and shall receive a $200
annual raise thereafter until they reach the maximum salary of
[$8,000] $8,500. The payment of such compensation and expenses
shall be made from the general funds of Baltimore County, in the
same manner as other general county disbursements are made. The
Sheriff of Baltimore County may appoint persons to the positions
of Captain, Lieutenant and Sergeant within his office. The Captain,
the Lieutenant, and the Sergeant shall receive salaries of [$9,000]
$9,500; [$8,750] $9,250; and [$8,500] $9,000; respectively. From
and after July 1, 1968, there shall be no part-time deputies employed
in the sheriff's office.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved May 5, 1970

CHAPTER 595
(House Bill 514)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 645A(e)
of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "II.
Venue, Procedure and Sentence," subheading "Post Convention
Procedure," to provide that counsel need not be reappointed where
a petition for post conviction relief is appealed to the Court of
Appeals or Court of Special Appeals CONVICTION PROCE-
DURE," PROVIDING FOR A STAY OF LOWER COURT
PROCEEDINGS REGARDING POST CONVICTION PROCE-
DURE IN CASES WHERE AN APPEAL IS PENDING FROM
THE JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION IN THE COURT OF AP-
PEALS OR COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 645A(e) of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1967 Replacement Volume), title "Crimes and Punishments,"
subtitle "II. Venue, Procedure and Sentence," subheading "Post Con-
viction Procedure," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

645A.

(e) The remedy herein provided is not a substitute for, nor does
it affect any remedies which are incident to the proceedings in the
trial court or before the trial magistrate (including a judge of the
Municipal Court of Baltimore City or of the people's court of any
county) or any remedy of direct review of the sentence or conviction.
A petition for relief under this subtitle may be filed at any time,
except that where an appeal has been taken from the judgment of