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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

this act to be by them respectively done at such
station houses.

May be
changed.

SEC. 627. The justice of the peace, so selected, to
sit at any station house, may be changed from time
to time fry the Governor, at his discretion, and any
other justice of the peace may be selected by the
Governor to perform the said duties at said station
house.

Salary.

SEC. 628. Each justice of the peace, selected to sit
at a station house, in the City of Baltimore, shall
receive the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dol-
lars per month, or a portionable part thereof, so long
as he shall continue to act at a station house in said
city, under the selection of the Governor as provided
for in this act; which sum of money shall be paid
to him by the Register of the City of Baltimore, at
the end of each month of his said service, or a pro-
portionable part thereof, at the end of any portion
of a month, at which the service of such justice of

Certificate.

the peace, at said station house may terminate, upon
the certificate of the Board of Police Commissioners
of Baltimore city, that such service has been rendered
under the appointment of the Governor as aforesaid;
and no justice of the peace selected for a station
house, shall be permitted to charge any fee, or
receive any gratuity for granting any release, or far
the performance of any duty required by law.

Failure to at-
tend to du-
ties.

SEC. 628 A. If any justice of the peace, who has
been selected as aforesaid to sit at any station house
in the City of Baltimore, is unable by reason of sick-
ness, or other unavoidable cause, to attend to his
duties at said station house, or fails to attend at
said station house, at any time, when his presence
is there required as provided for by this act, it shall
be the duty of the Board of Police Commissioners
of Baltimore city to require another justice of the
peace to perform the duties at said station house of
the said justice of the peace so sick or absent. And
it shall be the duty of the justice of the peace, so
required to perform said duties at said station house,
to perform the same so long as may be necessary, or
until the Governor shall select another justice to
perform said duties. The justice of the peace so re-