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for going to and returning from the court, once in each week, while serv-
ing on the jury; the pay of witnesses shall be one dollar per day while
attending the Circuit Court under summons; the pay of each bailiff and
messenger to the court shall be two dollars and fifty cents per day; the
per diem of each crier to said court shall be two dollars and fifty cents
and the same fees as are now allowed; and the certificate of the clerk
of the Circuit Court, expressing the number of days any of the afore-
going officers, jurors or witnesses, whose fees are properly chargeable
against the county, may be entitled to for such attendance shall be suffi-
cient authority for the treasurer of said county to pay the amount therein
specified on presentation.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 9, sec. 82. 1S72, ch. 155. 1876, ch. 299. 1882, ch. 404.

152. There shall be the following number of justices of the peace and
constables for Charles County, to wit: for Election District No. One, one
justice of the peace and two constables; for Election District Number
Two, two justices of the peace and two constables; for Election District
Number Three, three justices of the peace and two constables; for Elec-
tion District Number Four, three justices of the peace of two constables;
for Election District Number Five, two justices of the peace and two con-
stables; for Election District Number Six, three justices of the peace and
two constables; for election district number Seven, two justices of the
peace and two constables; for Election District Number Eight, four jus-
tices of the peace and two constables; and for Election District Number

Nine, two justices of the peace and two constables.
See sec. 104.

1892, ch. 121. 1906, ch. 116.

153. The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint an
additional justice of the peace for each of Election Districts No. One,
Four, Five and Seventh of Charles County, Maryland.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 9, sec. 83. 1870, ch. 434.

154. The justices of the peace in and for Charles, Carroll, Caroline,
Dorchester, Harford, Kent, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Worcester,
Anne Arundel and Calvert Counties shall have jurisdiction over and
may take cognizance of all actions of assault and battery in which the
damages claimed do not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars; and also

criminal jurisdiction in all cases of assault and battery committed in said

counties, unless it shall appear to the said justices of the peace, upon the
hearing of the case, that the said assault and battery was committed with
intent to kill.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 9, sec. 84. 1870, ch. 434.

155. In all such cases before the justices of the peace in and for the

counties above named, either party shall be allowed an appeal to the

Circuit Court for the county in which the offense was committed, where