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cases, and to perform all the duties which he is required by law to per-
form. The said respective Justices of the Peace, so selected to sit at any
station-house in the City of Baltimore, shall transact no other business
at such station-house except the business required of them, by the several
sections of this sub-title of this Article, to be by them, respectively, per-
formed at such station-house. The attendance at any such station-house
of an additional Justice of the Peace shall be regulated and controlled by
the Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore; but the Police Com-
missioner in regulating the attendance of an additional Justice of the
Peace at a station-house shall not assign any Justice of the Peace to said
station-house, under this section or Section 637 of this said Article 4,
other than a Justice of the Peace selected by the Governor to sit at a
station-house in said city, as long as one of the said Justices of the Peace
so assigned by the Governor shall be available for said purpose.

1892, ch. 651. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 614A.

631. When there is an arrest by an officer of the Police Department
in the City of Baltimore of any person for violation of an ordinance of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or a statute of the General
Assembly of the State of Maryland, punishable by fine and not by im-
prisonment, during the hours when the Police Magistrates are not at their
respective station-houses, the police captain, lieutenant or other officer on
duty and in charge of such station is hereby authorized and empowered
to release for the next hearing before the Police Magistrate any person
so arrested upon a deposit of an amount equal to the fine or costs or pen-
alty imposed if found guilty, as surety for such appearance, and after the
hearing the deposit is to be returned to the depositor if the complaint is dis-
missed, if otherwise it is to be appropriated as designated by law.

Brish v. Carter, 98 Md. 452.

1882, ch. 615. 1894, ch. 281. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 615. 1890, ch. 369.
1912, ch. 777. 1916, ch. 357.

632. Each of the said justices of the peace shall have power to hear,
try and determine the case of every person who may be arrested and
brought before him in the said City of Baltimore, charged with the
violation of Section 529 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Public
General Laws of 1924, title "Crimes and Punishments," and to hear, try
and determine the cases of all persons arrested and brought before him
charged with any offense specified in Sections 865 to 868, inclusive, of
this said Article 4, or in Sections 881 to 884, inclusive, of this said
Article 4; and to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons brought
before him charged with the violation of Chapter 351 of the Acts of 1898,
or charged with any disturbance of the public peace; and to hear, try and
determine the cases of all persons brought before him charged with assault
or with assault and battery; provided that no justice of the peace shall
impose any fine exceeding $100 or any term of imprisonment exceeding
one year, in any case of assault, or assault and battery, and to hear, try
and determine all charges of carrying concealed weapons and all viola-