L432 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
[Ch. 790]
Montgomery County, conditioned that he will well and faith-
fully execute the duties and obligations of justice of the peace,
and. that he will account for and pay over to the county com-
missioners of said county all fines, penalties, forfeitures 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 in any of its condi-
tions.
1910, ch. 294, sec. 3.
332. That the police justice appointed by virtue of this
act shall have an office in the Court House at Rockville, and
shall attend at his office as often as the business of same may
require his attention, and at least four days of each and every
week from the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. until 1 o'clock P. M.;
provided, however, that said justice shall give notice by publi-
cation or otherwise of the days of the week that he will be at
said office for the transaction of business.
Ibid. sec. 4.
333. That said justice of the peace shall have the same
jurisdiction in civil actions as other justices of the peace of
said county, and shall have exclusive jurisdiction of a justice
of the peace in the hearing of all charges and trial of all
cases of criminal offenses or for the recovery of any fine, penalty
or forfeitures, under the laws of this State within the limits
of said Montgomery county, and in the event of a warrant
being sworn out before any other justice of the peace for any
offense committed in said county it shall be the duty of the
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.
Ibid. sec. 5.
334. That whenever any person shall be arrested in said
Montgomery county upon any criminal charge or for the viola-
tion 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 custody
the person so arrested may be to take the person so arrested
before the said police justice for hearing or trial, and the said
police justice shall have the right and power to amend any
writ or warrant so as aforesaid issued by or returnable before
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