Salaries & Expenses of District Justices

PACKEL, Attorney General,

You have requested our advice as to when Acts Nos. 68 and 69 of 1973 take effect. Both of these acts were passed on July 27, 1973. No. 68 amends the Magisterial Districts Act of December 2, 1968, P. L. 1131, 42 PS §1301, et seq., by, inter alia, increasing the salary payable by the Commonwealth to district justices in counties of the third to eighth classes. Similarly, Act No. 69 amends the Magisterial Districts Act for *327Counties of the Second Class, Act of December 2,1968, P. L. 1146, 42 PS §1401, et seq., by increasing the salary payable by the Commonwealth to…