EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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be satisfied that the same is absolutely necessary to secure

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the ends of justice and the attendance of such witnesses; for

Salaries of
station house

each attachment for contempt, twenty-five cents, provided

justices.

that no justice of the peace appointed to sit at the station-

houses at Mt. Winans and St. Denis, respectively, in the 13th

Election District, shall be entitled to receive from the County

Commissioners more than forty dollars as fees for his services

in criminal cases in any one month, and that no justice of

the peace, other than a station house justice, shall be entitled

to receive from said County Commissioners more than ten

dollars as fees for his services in criminal cases in any one

month, and that the justice of the peace selected to sit at the

station house in Canton, in the 12th Election District, shall

receive from the County Commissioners the sum of eighty-

three dollars and thirty-three cents per month, or a propor-

tionate part thereof, so long as he shall continue to act at

said station house, under the selection of the Governor as here-

inbefore set forth, which sum of money shall be paid to him

by the Treasurer of Baltimore County on the order of the

County Commissioners at the end of each month of his said

service, or a proportionable part thereof at the end of any

portion of a month at which the service of such justice of the

peace at said station house may terminate as hereinbefore pro-

vided ; and no justice of the peace selected for said station

house shall he permitted to charge any fee except for the use

of the county as hereinafter provided, or receive any gratuity

for granting any release, or for the performance of any duty

required by law.

142H. The aforesaid fees of said constables and justices for

said county shall be taxed against and paid by the party

How the fees
are to be

against whom judgment shall be rendered, unless he or she

collected.

be discharged therefrom by clue course of law ; if such party

against whom judgment is rendered is unable to pay the

same, such fees shall be paid by said County Commissioners

subject to the limitation set forth in Sections I42F and 1420.

142I. Every justice of the peace appointed under this sub-

division of this Article shall file with the County Commis-

Monthly ac-
counts to be

sioners of Baltimore County on the first Wednesday of each

rendered.

and every month an account verified by his oath or affirma-

tion, of all fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by him

under the laws of this State and received during the preceding

month, which said account shall show the names of the re-

spective defendants, the Acts of Assembly, provisions of law,

or charges under which said fines, forfeitures and penalties