1314 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 782]

CHAPTER 782.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 294 of the Acts of 1910, entitled
"An Act to provide for the appointment of a Justice of the
Peace for Montgomery county at large, and define the
duties, powers, authority and jurisdiction of said justice and
other justices of said Montgomery county, Maryland," and
to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 294 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1910, entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of a
Justice of the Peace for Montgomery County at large and
define the duties, powers, authority and jurisdiction of said
justice and other justices of said Montgomery county, Mary-
land," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

SECTION 1A. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized, empow-
ered and directed by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate of the State of Maryland, if in session, and without the
consent and approval of the Senate if not in session, to bien-
nially appoint a justice of the peace for Montgomery county at
large, and to designate said justice of the peace appointed by
the provisions of this act as police justice.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That said police justice shall be a
resident of the County of Montgomery, in the State of Mary-
land, and who, before he acts as such shall give bond to the
State of Maryland in the penalty of one thousand dollars,
with a surety or securities to be approved by the County Com-
missioners of Montgomery county, conditioned that he will well
and faithfully execute the duties and obligations of justice of
the peace, and that he will account for and pay over to the
County Commissioners of said county all fines, penalties, for-
feitures and costs imposed by him, which he shall receive for
or on account of criminal offenses tried before him under the
provisions of the Public General Laws and the Public Local
Laws, which bond shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the
Circuit Court, and shall be liable at the suit of the State for
the use of the County Commissioners in case of default of
any of its conditions.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the justice of the peace
appointed by virtue of this act shall have an office in the Court
House at Rockville, or other suitable place in said town of
Rockville, to be provided by the County Commissioners for