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said police justice to the party before trial, and subject to the same right
of appeal as now exists under the law; provided, however, that nothing
in this Act shall preclude the said police justice from trying criminal
cases which arise in any other district of said county if the same shall be
properly brought before him; provided, however, nothing herein shall
confer any right of removal of any case from said police justice to any
other justice of the peace of Cecil County.
1916, ch. 321, sec. 4.
236. Said police justice shall at the first regular monthly meeting of
the County Commissioners held in each month make a report in writing
verified under oath, made before the clerk of said Commissioners or
before one of the Commissioners, of all cases for violation of any of the
Public General Laws and Public Local Laws heard or tried before him
during the preceding month, and also a like report of all cases for viola-
tion of any ordinances of the Town of Elkton, heard or tried before him
during the preceding month, which said reports shall each state, in each
and every case, the name of the defendant, the offense charged, the name
of the person upon whose complaint the warrant was issued, the number
of witnesses summoned, the name and official capacity of the officer serv-
ing the warrant and summons, the judgment rendered, the amount of fine
or penalty imposed, the amount of cost taxed, which shall include all
constables' costs and constables' fees, where process is served by police
officers acting with authority of constables, and the amount of fine and
costs collected by him, and all such fines and costs, including constables'
and officers' fees for serving warrants, and all other process which in cases
shall be properly taxed and collected, and said police justice at the time
of filing said reports and as a part of each of said reports, pay over to
said Treasurer of Cecil County the whole amount of all fines, penalties,
forfeitures, justice's costs and State's witness fees collected and received
by said police justice for the violation of any Public General Law or any
Public Local Law and paid over to the Treasurer of Cecil County, shall be
appropriated by said treasurer to the payment of all fees in criminal
cases chargeable against Cecil County; and all fines, penalties, forfeitures,
justice's costs and State's witness fees collected and received by said police
justice for violation of any and all ordinances of the Town of Elkton, so
paid over to the said Treasurer of Cecil County, shall be paid to the
Commissioners of Elkton, after deducting therefrom all justice's costs
in all cases tried and heard by said police justice for the violation of any
ordinance of the Town of Elkton, by the said Treasurer of Cecil County;
and the said justice's costs so deducted and collected for the trial of cases
in violation of the ordinances of Elkton shall be used and paid on account
of the salary or compensation of said police justice, paid by the County
Commissioners of Cecil County, as hereinafter provided by Section 237
of this Article.
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