3214 ARTICLE 15.

district number four, three justices of the peace and two constables; for
election district number five, four justices of the peace and two constables.

The 6th and 7th Election Districts were created by ch. 289, 1896, and no specific
provision was made for the appointment of justices of the peace and constables.

POLICE JUSTICES.
1902, ch. 161, sec. 138A. 1904, ch. 411, sec. 138A.

222. It shall be the duty of the Governor, after the appointment of the
justices of the peace, provided by law, for the Chestertown or Fourth
Election District, and those of the First Election District of Kent County,
to select one from the justices so appointed for each of said districts who
shall be known and designated as police justices; the said police justices
shall have the same jurisdiction in criminal cases as justices of the peace
now possess and which may hereafter be conferred upon them by and
under the laws of the State, but the police justice of the First Election
District shall have civil jurisdiction; the said police justices shall have
exclusive jurisdiction of and shall be required to try and determine all
violations of the criminal law which may arise in the Fourth or Chester-
town Election District or the First Election District of Kent County,
within the jurisdiction now possessed by justices of the peace or which
may be hereafter conferred upon them by law; provided, nothing in this
bill* shall give the police justice of First District any jurisdiction in the
first precinct of First District, and all violations of any of the ordinances
of the town of Chestertown; the First Election District subject, however,
to the same right of election to be tried by jury, notice of which must be
clearly given by said justice to the party before beginning trial, and sub-
ject to the same right of appeal as now exists under the law; provided,
however, that nothing contained in this Act shall preclude the said police
justice from trying criminal cases which may arise in any other district
of said county, except Chestertown or Fourth Election District.

1902, ch. 161, sec. 138B. 1904, ch. 411, sec. 138B. 1929, ch. 575.

223. The said Police Justice of Chestertown, or Fourth Election Dis-
trict, shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of $600 per
annum, or the proportionate part thereof, so long as he may continue to
act as such police justice in said Fourth Election District, and the said
police justice of the First Election District shall receive as compensation
for his services the sum of $200 per annum or the proportionate part
thereof, so long as he shall continue to act as such police justice in the
said First Election District; said salaries to be paid by the County Com-
missioners of Kent County, in equal quarterly instalments, and said sala-
ries shall be in full compensation for all services required of them under
this Act. And no justice of the peace so selected for police justice shall
be permitted to charge any fee or receive a gratuity for making any com-
mitment, granting any release, or for the performance of any duty re-
quired by the law in criminal cases.

*"Act" evidently intended.