198 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

PINES AND FOKEEITUBES.

229. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by the ordi-
nances of the city, if not exceeding one hundred dollars, shall be
recovered before a justice of the peace as small debts are, and if
any fine, penalty and forfeiture exceed the sum of one hundred
dollars, it shall be recovered by action of debt in the name of the
corporation in the Criminal Court of Baltimore.

280. An appeal shall lie from the judgment of a justice of the
peace imposing any fine, penalty or forfeiture, under the ordi-
nances of the corporation, to the Court of Common Pleas, and
shall be heard and decided at the session of the court next suc-
ceeding the appeal, unless the court shall then be in session, in
which case the appeal shall be heard and decided at that session
unless the court in its discretion shall grant a continuance.

231. All suits in the Criminal Court for fines, penalties and
forfeitures under the ordinances of the city, shall stand for trial
at the first session of the court to which they are brought, and
in the event of an appeal to the Court of Appeals in any such
cause, the same shall stand for argument at the term to which
the appeal is taken.

232. One-half of all fines adjudged by and accruing in the
Criminal Court of Baltimore, (except those mentioned in the
next succeeding section of this article,) when secured by the
sheriff of Baltimore city, shall be paid to the mayor and city
council of Baltimore; and out of said fines the judge of said
court may order and direct to be paid to the State's Attorney
for said city, such additional fees, in cases of extraordinary
duration and trouble, as he may deem just and reasonable; but
this section shall not have any effect upon the rights of informers.

233. All fines imposed by said court on persons convicted of
keeping houses of ill fame shall be divided equally between such
dispensaries of said city as shall have had under their charge
during the year preceding at least fifteen hundred patients.

234. No person shall hereafter be allowed to give security for
the payment of any fine and costs imposed by the Criminal Court
of Baltimore, but any person who shall be sentenced by the court
to the payment of any fine and costs shall stand committed until
they are paid; Provided, that if such fine and costs are less than