1598 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 823)

Court within thirty (30) days thereafter; provided, however
that this section shall not apply to any of the five justices of the
peace assigned to the People's Court, whose dockets and papers
shall be retained in the custody of the Chief Constable. Any
justice of the peace of the People's Court may issue process
upon any docket of any justice of the peace in the custody of
said Chief Constable that he might issue if the docket had been
kept by himself, and may also enter "Satisfied" any judgment
upon any such docket, upon the written order of the plaintiff,
attested by any justice of the peace.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That three new sections-
be and the same are hereby added to Article 4 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," sub-
title "Justices of the Peace and Constables," three of them to
follow immediately after section 625? as hereby amended, and
to be known respectively as sections 625A, 625B, 625C, said
three new sections to read respectively as follows:

625A. It shall be the duty of said Presiding Justice of the
Peace to assign for trial to himself or to one of said Associate
Justices of the Peace, all cases removed to him as said Presiding:
Justice of the Peace under the provisions of section 627 of this
article, or returnable before any Justice of the Peace of the
People's Court, and generally to supervise the work of the said
Associate Justices of the Peace and of the constables hereinbe-
fore provided for.

625B. Each of the justices of the peace provided for in,
section 623 hereof, other than those specially provided for in
section 623A, 625 and 630 to 638, inclusive, of this article,
shall receive from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore a.
salary of $10.00 per annum, as full compensation for the per-
formance by them of all duties of a civil, judicial nature; but
said justices of the peace shall have the right to charge and
retain all fees arising from the taking of acknowledgments and
affidavits.

625C. The jurisdiction of all justices of the peace shall be-
as it now is or may hereafter be established by law. The fees
and costs to be paid for the performance of their duties by all
justices of the peace and constables, including all fees and costs
payable to the Chief Constable, shall be as they now are or as
they may hereafter be established by law; but all such fees and
costs shall be payable only to the Chief Constable hereinbefore
provided for. except in the cases of acknowledgments and affi-
davits taken by justices of the peace not assigned to the People's
Court, and except costs, fines, penalties and forfeitures payable-