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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 411.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections

138 A and 138B of Article 15 of the Code of Public Local

Laws, title "Kent County." sub-title "Justices of the Peace

and Constables," as enacted by Chapter 161 of the Acts passed

at the January Session, 1902.

Re-enact-
ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Sections 138A and 138B of Article 15 of the Code

of Public Local Laws, title "Kent County," sub-title "Justices

of the Peace and Constables," be and the same is hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as fol-

lows :

Appointment

138A. It shall be the duty of the Governor, after the appoint-

of police

justices.

ment of the justices of the peace, provided bv lawr, for the

Chestertown or Fourth Election District, and those of the First

Election District of Kent County, to select one from the justices

so appointed for each of said districts who shall be known and

designated as police justices; the said police justices shall have

the same jurisdiction in criminal cases as justices of the peace

now possess and which may hereafter be conferred upon them

by and under the laws of the State, but the police justice of

the First Election District shall have civil jurisdiction; the said

police justices shall have exclusive jurisdiction of and shall be

required to try and determine all violations of the criminal law

which may arise in the Fourth or Chestertown Election District

or the First Election District of Kent County, within the juris-

diction now possessed by justices of the peace or which may be

hereafter conferred upon them by law ; provided, nothing in

this bill shall give the police justice of First District any juris-

diction in the first precinct of First District, and all viola-

tions of any of the ordinances of the town of Chestertown ; the

First Election District subject, however, to the same right of

election to be tried by jury, notice of which must be clearly

given by said justice to the party before beginning trial, and

subject to the same right of appeal as now exists under the

Proviso.

law ; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Act shall

preclude the said police justice from trying criminal cases

which may arise in any other district of said county, except

Chestertown or Fourth Election District.

Compen-

138B. That the said police justice of Chestertown, or Fourth

sation.

Election District, shall receive as compensation for his services

the sum of $4.00 per annum, or the proportionate part thereof.

so long as he may continue to act as such police justice in

said Fourth Election District, and the sum of $200 per annum

or the proportionate part thereof, so long as he shall continue

to act as such police justice in the said First Election District;

said salaries to be paid by the County Commissioners of Kent

County, in equal quarterly instalments, and this salary shall be