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nor when such absence shall not exceed fifteen days in the course of any
one year, and when the said Police Commissioner shall certify that such
last-named absence, not exceeding fifteen days, as aforesaid, was occasioned
by sickness or other unavoidable cause.

1888, ch. 336. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 621.

638. The said station-house Justices are granted a leave of absence,
with pay, for fifteen days during each and every year; and the Police
Commissioner is authorized to designate one of the civil magistrates to
act in their place during said absence, who shall be paid the same as the
station-house Justices receive.

1S76, ch. 28. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 622.

639. No Justice of the Peace appointed under the provisions of Sec-
tion 623 shall be paid by the City of Baltimore any fee for issuing any
State writ, or for any search warrant, or for taking the recognizance of
any witness, or for taking any recognizance in any case reported to court,
or for any commitment or release, or for issuing any subpoena in any
criminal case, or in any case instituted to recover any fine, penalty or
forfeiture claimed by the State of Maryland, or by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore; and no police officer or constable shall be paid by
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore any fee for the service of any
subpoena or process in any criminal case, before any Justice of the Peace,
or for service of any subpoena or process in any case pending before any
Justice of the Peace, for the recovery of any fine, forfeiture or penalty
by the State of Maryland or by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

1876, ch. 28. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 623.

640. It shall be the duty of the officers of police, policemen and
detectives appointed by the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City, to
serve and execute any and all writs, warrants, subpoenas and commit-
ments, which may be issued by any Justice of the Peace selected to sit
at the station-houses in the City of Baltimore as hereinbefore provided.

1876, ch. 28. P. L. L. (1S8S), Art. 4, sec. 624.

641. Whenever any Justice of the Peace appointed under the pro-
visions of this subdivision of this Article other than one of the Justices
selected as aforesaid to sit at a station-house as aforesaid, shall issue a
State writ for the arrest of any person, or shall issue any writ or summons
against any person or corporation to recover any fine, penalty, or for-
feiture, under any law of this State, or under any ordinance of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, such writ or summons shall be made
returnable before one of the Justices of the Peace selected by the Governor
to sit at a station-house in the City of Baltimore, and shall not be made
returnable before the Justice of the Peace issuing the same, unless he be
one of the Justices of the Peace selected to sit at a station-house as afore-
said.