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ART. LVI] MOTOR VEHICLES. 405
the same provision, may for each second or additional offense be fined
in double the amount herein prescribed for the first offense, or may be
sentenced to imprisonment for double the period prescribed for the first
offense. This section is not to apply to those cases as to which the
penalties for second or additional offenses have been specially provided
for in this sub-title.
Fees of Justices and Constables.
1916, ch. 687. 1918, ch. 85, sec. 162.
162. Every Justice of the Peace shall maintain within the limits
of the county for which he is appointed a suitable office for the trans-
action of his duties as such, and shall under no circumstances try any
case involving a violation of any provision of the Motor Vehicle Laws
of the State, or impose or collect any fine or collateral in any case
except within said office or, if outside his office hours, within the house
in which he regularly resides.
The fees of Justices of the Peace in cases involving alleged violations
of the Motor Vehicle Laws of this State shall be as follows:
For each State warrant issued upon complaint or at the time the
offender is brought before him for an immediate hearing as herein-
"before provided, a fee of fifty cents;
For each trial upon such warrant, a fee of fifty cents to be taxed
only in the event the warrant is contested and not in any case where
the party pleads guilty, in which event the fee for entering such plea
of guilty and the judgment thereon shall be twenty-five cents;
For administering the oath lo the witnesses in any such case, a fee
of twenty cents, such fee to cover the swearing of all the witnesses both
lor tke State and accused in such case;
For entry of judgment in contested cases, but not in cases where the
accused pleads guilty, twenty-five cents, said entry in all cases to specify
the amount of fine and costs respectively;
For each continuance twenty-five cents;
For each release of an accused on bail, fifty cents;
For each copy of his warrant and docket entries in any case, ten
cents each or twenty cents for the two.
And no Justice of the Peace shall charge, receive or, attempt to col-
lect any fees other than or in excess of those enumerated in this section
in any case arising under this sub-title.
No Justice shall try any case except upon warrani duly prepared in
the form required by law which shall be preserved with the other
papers pertaining to his office; and no such justice shall collect any fine
or costs in any case involving a violation of the Motor Vehicle Laws of
this State until he has completed the entries pertaining to such case in
his docket kept for the making of his records, and all such 'dockets shall
be preserved and transmitted to the clerks of the courts as required by
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