PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1317

the peace has no power to hear or try, then it shall be the duty
of the said justice of the peace before whom such a warrant
is sworn out to make the same returnable before the said Police
Justice for hearing and trial.

SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That whenever any person shall be
arrested in said Montgomery county upon any criminal charge
or for the violation of any law of this State whether such arrest
is made without writ or is made under a warrant issued by
any justice of the peace of the said Montgomery county it shall
be the duty of such officer making such arrest or in whose cus-
tody the person so arrested may be to take the person so arrested
before the said Police Justice or one of the justices of the peace
of the said county according as is stated in the command or
return of the writ or warrant, for hearing or trial, and the said
Police Justice or justice of the peace, as the case may be,
shall have the right and power to amend any writ or warrant
so as aforesaid issued by or returnable before him so that such
case may be tried on its merits and the purposes of justice sub-
served.

SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That said Police Justice shall be
en/titled to and receive the fees now allowed by law to other
justices of the peace for issuing any warrant of arrest or sum-
mons for witness, or for hearings, trials, judgment and com-
mitment, and shall also receive and be allowed the same fees
as other justices of the peace in said county in civil actions, and
shall be paid in the same manner as other justices of the peace
aforesaid; and all witnesses in criminal cases living in said town
of Rockville or within two miles thereof summoned before the
said Police Justice shall be allowed thirty-three cents per day
and all other witnesses in criminal cases summoned before said
Police Justice shall be allowed fifty cents per day and two and
one-half cents per mile going to the office of said Police Justice
as well as returning from the office of said Police Justice.

SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That said Police Justice shall at the
first regular meeting of the County Commissioners of Mont-
gomery county held in each month, make a report in writing
verified, under oath of all criminal cases heard or tried before
him during the preceding month, which report shall state in each
case the name of the defendant, the offense charged, the name
of the person upon whose complaint the warrant was issued,
the number of witnesses summoned, the name of the officer serv-
ing the warrant and summons, the judgment rendered, the
amount of fine or penalty imposed, the amount of costs taxed,
which shall include all constables, or sheriffs' fees, and the
amount of fine and costs collected by him, and shall at the