PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1299

the case of'the person so charged; and the said justice of the
peace before issuing said warrant shall also endorse upon said
warrant the amount of bail so determined as aforesaid. When
any person shall be arrested and brought to any station-house in
the City of Baltimore, under a warrant so endorsed as aforesaid,
during the absence of the justice of the peace assigned thereto,
the police captain, lieutenant or other police officers in charge
of said station-house, shall release for the next hearing before
said justice of the peace, such person so arrested as aforesaid,
upon his furnishing security for his appearance at said hearing
in double the amount endorsed upon said warrant. The jus-
tice of the peace aforesaid may at any time change the amount
of required bail, so determined and endorsed as aforesaid and
shall in such case endorse such change upon said warrant if
then accessible .to said justice, and if not, then endorse the same
upon said warrant upon the return of said warrant, but in no
case where the offense charged is punishable by fine alone and
not by imprisonment shall the justice at any time determine
and endorse upon the warrant an amount of required bail
greater than the maximum fine imposed by law for the com-
mission of the offense charged. Nothing in this section shall
be construed as inconsistent with section 631 of Article 4 of
the Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "City of Balti-
more," sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables," as
repealed and re-enacted with amendments by Chapter 123 of
the Acts of 1898.

SEC. 632G. Any police justice of the City of Baltimore
shall have the right to issue a summons for the attendance of
any witness in any case under consideration by said justice,
pursuant to the provisions of section 632, and upon the failure
of any person to attend said station-house in response to said
summons at the time and place mentioned in said summons,
he shall be liable, in the discretion of the said police justice
to a fine not exceeding $5 for his non-attendance in response
to the said summons, which fine shall be collected as other fines
are collected, provided, however, the pnoof shows that a written
or printed notice of said summons was duly delivered to the
said witness in person by some one duly authorized under the
law to summon witness in such case.

SEC. 632H. The said several justices of the peace, assigned
to the station houses in Baltimore City, shall have the right to
preserve order and decorum when sitting at the said station
houses in the discharge of their duties as such police justices,
and shall have the right to punish any breach of order or
decorum committed in their presence, by a fine not exceeding