MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 13

143A.

THE RESIDENT JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
RESIDING IN DORCHESTER COUNTY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
EMPLOYMENT, DISCHARGE, AND CLASSIFICATION OF COURT
PERSONNEL WHOSE PERFORMANCE OF DUTIES IS PRIMARILY
RESTRICTED TO THE COURTROOM OR THE JUDGE'S CHAMBERS.
THIS INCLUDES HIS SECRETARY, LAW CLERK, BAILIFF, AND
CRIER. ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY OF EACH
YEAR, HE SHALL DETERMINE THE COMPENSATION FOR THESE
PERSONNEL AND SUBMIT THEIR PROPOSED SALARIES TO THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. THE SALARIES SHALL BE ESTABLISHED
IN THE SOUND DISCRETION OF THE RESIDENT JUDGE, AND MAY BE
REDUCED BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ONLY IF THE PROPOSED
SALARIES EXCEED THE HIGHEST SALARIES PAID COMPARABLE
COURT PERSONNEL EMPLOYED BY THE OTHER CIRCUIT COURTS OF
THE CIRCUIT. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION THE SENIOR
RESIDENT JUDGE SHALL BE THAT ACTIVE JUDGE WHO FIRST TOOK
THE OATH OF OFFICE AS JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
DORCHESTER COUNTY.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved February 11, 1974.

CHAPTER 9
(Senate Bill 275)
AN ACT concerning

Dorchester — Terms of Court

FOR the purpose of changing the dates for the terms of
court and jury terms.

BY repealing and re-enacting, with amendments,

The Pubic Local Laws of Dorchester County
Sections 140 and 141

Article 10 - Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1961 Edition)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 140 and 141 of the Public Local
Laws of Dorchester County being Article 10 of the Code of
Public Local Lavs of Maryland (1961 Edition), be and they