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1876, ch. 28. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 625.

642. Whenever any person shall be arrested upon any criminal charge,
or for the violation of any law of this State, or of any ordinance of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, it shall be the duty of the police
officer or constable making such arrest, or in whose custody the said
person so arrested may be, to take the person so arrested before the Justice
of the Peace sitting at a station-house who may have issued the writ or
warrant for such arrest, or before whom such writ or warrant of arrest
is made returnable; but if such arrest is made without writ or warrant,
or if such writ or warrant is made returnable before another Justice than
a Justice of the Peace sitting at a station-house, it shall be the duty of
the said police officer or constable to take the person so arrested to the
nearest station-house; and the Justice of the Peace sitting at said station-
house shall take jurisdiction in said case.

Police Justice has no Jurisdiction to try violations of the motor vehicle Act.
Ruggles v. State, 120 Md. 556.

1876, ch. 28. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 626. 1929, ch. 269.

643. Every Justice of the Peace appointed under the provisions of this,
subdivision of this Article, shall file with the Clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, quarterly reports as of the first day of April, July, October
and January, in each and every year, an account verified by his oath or
affirmation, of all fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by him under
the laws of this State, during the three preceding months; which said
account shall show the names of the respective defendants, the Acts of
Assembly under which said fines, forfeitures and penalties were respect-
ively imposed, and the amounts paid in each case by the said respective-
defendants; and the said Justice of the Peace, at the time of filing said
account shall pay over to the said clerk the amount of said fines, penalties
and forfeitures so received, or the portion thereof to which the State of
Maryland is entitled, to be accounted for by sadd clerk as other moneys of
the State are accounted for by him; said reports to be made within twenty
days from the expiration of each quarter.

1876, ch. 28. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 627.

644. Every Justice of the Peace appointed under the provisions of this
subdivision of this Article shall file with the City Register, on the first
day of April, July, October and January in each and every year, an
account verified by his oath or affirmation, of all fines, forfeitures and
penalties imposed by him under the ordinances of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore during the three preceding months; which said
accounts shall show the names of the respective defendants, the ordinances,
under which said fines, penalties or forfeitures were, respectively, im-
posed, and the amounts paid in each case by said respective defendants;
and the said Justice of the Peace at the time of filing said account shall

pay over to the said Register the amount of said fines, penalties and
forfeitures so received, or the portion thereof to which the Mayor and