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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 348

[5-400.

(a)  The governor, by and with the advice of the senate,
shall appoint ten justices of the peace in Anne Arundel County,
four of whom shall be designated committing magistrates and six
of whom shall be designated deputy committing magistrates. Where
practicable, they shall be from different geographical areas of
the county so as to best serve the needs of all the county. They
shall have throughout the county all the powers and jurisdiction
vested by law in justices of the peace other than trial
magistrates and substitute trial magistrates.

(b)  The committing magistrates shall devote their full time
to the duties of their office and shall each receive an annual
salary of five thousand dollars. The deputy committing
magistrates shall each receive an annual salary of fifteen
hundred dollars.

(c)  The committing magistrates and deputy committing
magistrates shall sit at such times and places and shall perform
such duties, including the issuance of warrants, the taking of
bail bonds, the acceptance of collateral, and clerical functions
as are assigned to them by the chief judge of the people's court.
In the conduct and administration of their affairs they shall
conform to such practices and procedures, consistent with law, as
are prescribed by the chief clerk of the people's court with the
approval of the chief judge thereof.]

[5-500.                                                             

It shall be the duty of the clerk to the county council to
make out and file with the clerk of the circuit court for the
county, not less than twenty days before the third Monday of
April in each and every year, a fair and complete list of all the
taxable residents of the county whose names appear on the tax
books thereof, and who are not known to the clerk or to the
council to be under the age of twenty-five years, to which list,
so to be made and filed, he shall append a certificate that such
list is fully arid fairly made, and for which such list he shall
receive such compensation as the county council shall deem right
and proper, not exceeding fifty dollars for any one list so made
out; and, for failure to perform the duty hereby imposed, the
clerk to the county council shall forfeit and pay to the state a
fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars, in the discretion of the court, to be recovered
by indictment as for a misdemeanor, and shall thenceforth be
ineligible of holding the position of clerk to the county
council.)

[5-501.

It shall be the duty of the judges or a judge of the circuit
court for the county, not less than fifteen days before the
commencement of each term of the court, at which jurors are