DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2303
duties of coroner. The said police justice shall have exclusive jurisdiction
of and shall be required to try and determine all violations of the criminal
laws, and to perform all the duties of coroner which shall arise in said
Seventh Election District and all violations of the ordinances of the town
of Cambridge, subject, however to the same right of election to be tried
by a jury, notice of which must be clearly given by 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 Dorchester County.
1912, ch. 698, sec. 4.
359. 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 violation of
any ordinances of the town of Cambridge, 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 serving
the warrant and summons, the judgment rendered, the amount of fine or
penalty imposed, the amount of costs taxed, which shall include all con-
stables' 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 all cases
shall be properly taxed and collected, and said police justice shall at
the time of filing said reports and as a part of each of said reports, pay
over to said Treasurer of Dorchester County the whole amount of all
fines, penalties, forfeitures, justice's costs and State's witness fees col-
lected and received by him; said fines, penalties, forfeitures, justice's
costs and 'all State 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 Dorchester County, shall be appropriated
by said Treasurer to the payment of all fees in criminal cases chargeable
against Dorchester 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 Cambridge, so paid
over to said Treasurer of Dorchester County, shall be paid to the Com-
missioners of Cambridge, after deducting therefrom all justice's costs in
all cases tried and heard by said police justice for the violation of any
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