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which is or may be allowed by law for receiving such vagrants and
offenders into his custody when first apprehended and committed, nor more
than twenty-five cents per day for boarding such vagrants and offenders.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

1908, ch. 358, sec. 255. 1918 Code, sec. 342.

317. All offenses against the laws and ordinances of the Mayor and
Aldermen of Frederick shall be tried and determined by one of the justices
of the peace of Election District Number Two, of Frederick County, and
all arrests for breaches of the laws and ordinances of the corporation shall
be made by the constables appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen of
Frederick, and by no other constables whatsoever, and for compensation
for services rendered under this subtitle of this Article each of said
justices of the peace shall receive in equal quarterly installments from the
Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick the sum of three hundred dollars an-
nually and each of said justices shall have jurisdiction to try all causes
and to impose the respective penalties therefor prescribed by the ordi-
nances of the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick, and which by the terms
of said ordinances are to be imposed by the Mayor and Aldermen, as
well as the penalties hereafter prescribed by said Mayor and Aldermen
of Frederick, by ordinance passed in accordance with the provisions of
the charter of Frederick City; and said justices of the peace shall pay
quarterly to the Register of Frederick City all fines and costs collected
by them in corporation cases, and any one of them upon failure to do so
shall be liable to indictment in the Circuit Court for Frederick County,
and upon conviction shall be fined the sum of one hundred dollars, or be
imprisoned in the county jail for a term not less than two months and
not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court; and
each of said justices shall produce his docket when requested to do so by
the Board of Aldermen and may be interrogated under oath in regard to
the entries therein.

Fines and Penalties.

1908, ch. 358, sec. 223. 1918 Code, sec. 343.

318. No ordinance of said city, except as specially provided in the
charter of said city, shall impose a fine of more than one hundred dollars
for any one offense, or authorize a commitment to the jail of Frederick
County for more than ninety clays at any one time.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 224. 1918 Code, sec. 344.

319. All fines shall go to the corporation, and shall be appropriated as
directed by ordinance.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 221. 1918 Code, sec. 345.

320. The Sheriff shall receive and safe keep in the jail of said county
all persons who shall be committed thereto for a breach of any of the