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ceding section; and the said justices shall be entitled to charge for their
respective services in said criminal cases the following fees: For issuing
each State writ, twenty-five cents; for summoning all the witnesses on both
sides in any case, fifty cents; for each trial, one dollar; for every commit-
ment, twenty-five cents; for every release, twenty-five cents; for taking
recognizances in each case reported to the Circuit Court, twenty-five cents
each; for each attachment for contempt, twenty-five cents.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1. sec. 184. 1884, ch. 510.

369. The aforesaid fees of said constables and justices for said coun-
ties shall be taxed against and paid by the party against whom judgment
shall be rendered, unless he be discharged therefrom by due course of law;
if such party against whom judgment is rendered is unable to pay the
same, such fees shall be paid by the county wherein said judgment was
rendered; and all fines and penalties received by any justice under the pro-
visions of Section 367, shall be accounted for and wholly paid, without
abatement or deduction therefrom by such justice, to the County Commis-
sioners of the county wherein they are collected, for the use of said county.
and no part of any fine or penalty enforced or collected under said section
shall be paid to any informer.

JUVENILE COURT.

1914, ch. 701, sec. 184A. 1922, ch. 21. 1927, ch. 661.

370. In addition to the Justices of the Peace hereinbefore mentioned,
there shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent of the
Senate, and if the Senate shall not be in session, by the Governor, for
Allegany County at large an additional Justice of the Peace to be known
as the Magistrate for Juvenile Cases, who shall receive a salary of two
thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), per year, payable monthly, two-
thirds by the County Commissioners for Allegany County and the other
one-third by the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland, Maryland, and
the jurisdiction and powers of such Justice shall be as follows: (1) He
shall possess the general powers of a Justice of the Peace and also of the
Justice of the Peace who is selected to sit at the Police Court in the City
of Cumberland as the same are now or may hereafter be defined; (2) He
shall have full power and jurisdiction over and with respect to delinquent,
neglected and dependent minors under the age of sixteen years, and of any
person causing, encouraging or contributing towards delinquency, neglect
or dependency of any such minor; (3) He shall have exclusive jurisdic-
tion in all cases of trial or commitment for trials or commitment to any
juvenile institution of any minor under sixteen years of age where juris-
diction is given by law to any Justice of the Peace, and such Magistrate
shall sit at such times as may be necessary for the proper discharge of his
duties; (4) Such Magistrate is empowered to appoint a suitable person
to act as his clerk, who may be a woman, and who shall receive an annual
salary of nine hundred dollars, payable monthly, two-thirds from the