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1130 ARTICLE 4.
of two thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, and whose juris-
diction and powers shall be the same as those conferred upon the Magis-
trate for Juvenile Causes and who shall be designated by the Governor
to sit in said court in the absence by illness or otherwise and at other
times upon the request of and in the place of the said Magistrate for
Juvenile Causes.
1912. ch. 482.
623AA. The Magistrate for Juvenile Causes shall have, in addition
to the powers and the authority vested in him by other sections of this
Article, the power and authority to enforce obedience to his orders and
judgments by attachment and to inflict summary punishment for con-
tempt of court by a fine not exceeding in any one case the sum of twenty
dollars ($20); and said Magistrate for Juvenile Causes may make such
rules and orders from time to time for the well-governing and regulating
his Court and the officers and suitors thereof and under such fines and
forfeitures as he shall think fit, not exceeding twenty dollars ($20) for
any one offense; all of which fines shall go to the State; provided, how-
ever, that the power aforesaid to punish for contempt shall not be con-
strued to extend to any cases arising in the Court of said Magistrate for
Juvenile Causes except the cases specifically set forth and provided for
in Section 4 of Article 26, of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land as within the power of the several courts of the State to inflict sum-
mary punishments for contempt of Court.
1876, ch. 28. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4, sec. 608. 1912, ch. 823.
624. Each of said Justices of the Peace, before entering upon the
duties of his office, shall give to the State of Maryland a good and suffi-
cient bond, with a surety or sureties to be approved by the judge of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, in the penalty of five thousand dollars
($5,000), with conditions that he will truly and faithfully discharge,
execute and perform all and singular the duties and obligations of the
office of Justice of the Peace, and that will account for and pay over
to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and to the Register of the
City of Baltimore, respectively, all fines, penalties and forfeitures and
all fees or the portion thereof, which he is bound to account for and pay
over to said respective officers; and that he will faithfully and truly ac-
count for and pay over to the person or corporation entitled to receive the
same, all money belonging to such person or corporation which may come
into his hands as Justice of the Peace.
As to liability of Justices of the Peace for official acts, see Roth v. Shupp, 94
Md. 57.
P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 621. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 609. 1912. ch. 823.
1922, ch. 187. 1927, ch. 346.
625. It shall be the duty of the Governor, after appointment of the
Justices of the Peace provided for in Section 623, to select from the
Justices of the Peace so appointed one Justice of the Peace who shall
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