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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

State writs.

station house as aforesaid, shall issue a State writ for
the arrest of any person, or shall issue any writ or
summons, against any person or corporation, to
recover any tine, penalty, or forfeiture, under any
law of this State, or under any ordinance of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, such writ or
summons, shall be made returnable before one of
'the justices of the peace selected by the Governor to
sit at a station house in the city, of Baltimore, and
shall not be made returnable before the justice of
the peace, issuing the same, unless he be one of the
justices of the peace selected to sit at a station house
as aforesaid.

Jurisdiction.

SEC. 628 E. Whenever any person shall be ar-
rested upon any criminal charge, or for the violation
of any law of this State, or of any ordinance of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, it shall be the
duty of the police officer or constable, making such
arrest, or in whose custody the said person so ar-
rested may be, to take the person so arrested before
the justice of the peace, setting at a station house,
who. may have issued the writ or warrant for such
arrest or before whom such writ or warrant of ar-
rest is made returnable, but if such arrest is made
without writ or warrant, or if such writ or warrant
is made returnable before another justice, than a
justice of the peace sitting at a station house, it shall
be the duty of the said police officer or constable to
take the person so arrested to the nearest station
house; and the justice of the peace sitting at said
station house shall take jurisdiction in said case.

Time for fil-
ing account
of State
fines.

SEC. 628. F. Every justice of the peace appointed
under the provisions of this act, shall file with the
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, on the first day
of April, July, October and January, in each and
every year an account, verified by his oath or affir-
mation of all fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed
by him under the laws of this State, during the three
preceding months, which said account shall show the
names of the respective defendants, the Acts of As-
sembly under which said tines, forfeitures or penal-
ties were respectively imposed, and the amounts paid
in. each case by the said respective defendants; and
the said justice of the peace at the time of filing said