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and residences of the witnesses for the prosecution; and such commitment
or recognizance so endorsed shall be returned forthwith to the Clerk of
the said Criminal Court of Baltimore.

1876, ch. 28. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 618.

635. The Justice of the Peace, so selected to sit at any station-house,
may be changed from time to time by the Governor, at his discretion, and
any other Justice of the Peace may be selected by the Governor to per-
form the said duties at said station-house.

1876, ch. 28. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 619. 1922, ch. 186. 1927, ch. 348.

636. Each Justice of the Peace selected to sit at a station-house in
the City of Baltimore shall receive the sum of Thirty-five Hundred
($3,500) Dollars per annum, to be paid monthly, or a proportionate part
thereof, so long as he shall continue to act at a station-house in said city,
under the selection of the Governor; which sum of money shall be paid
to him by the City Register at the end of each month of his said service,
or a proportionate part thereof, at the end of any portion of a month at
which the service of said Justice of the Peace at said station-house may
terminate, upon the certificate of the Police Commissioner of Baltimore
City, that such service has been rendered under the appointment of the
Governor as aforesaid; and no Justice of the Peace selected for a station-
house shall be permitted to charge any fee, or receive any gratuity for
granting any release, or for the performance of any duty required by law.

1880, ch. 461. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 620.

637. If any Justice of the Peace who has been selected as aforesaid
to sit at any station-house in the City of Baltimore is unable, by reason
of sickness or other unavoidable cause, to attend to his duty at said
station-house, or fails to attend at said station-house, at any time, when
his presence is there required, it shall be the duty of the Police Commis-
sioner of Baltimore City to require another Justice of the Peace to per-
form the duties at said station-house, of the said Justice of the Peace so
sick or absent; and it shall be the duty of the Justice of the Peace so
required to perform said duties at said station-house, to perform the
same so long as may be necessary, or until the Governor shall select another
Justice to perform said duties; the Justice of the Peace so required to
perform said duties at said station-house, by the said Police Commis-
sioner, in place of the Justice selected by the Governor, shall receive six
dollars per day for every day he shall actually serve at such station-house;
which pay shall be deducted from the pay provided to be paid to the
Justice selected to sit at such station-house and failing to attend; pro-
vided, that said pay of the said Justice who may sit in the absence of the
Justice so selected to sit at any station-house, shall not be deducted from
the pay of the said last-named Justice, if the said Police Commissioner
shall certify that such absence was by reason of his necessary attendance
upon any court or Justice of the Peace of said State, under its process,