KENT COUNTY. 3215

1902, ch. 161, sec. 138C.

224. If any justice of the peace so selected as a police justice is unable,
by reason of sickness, absence, relationship, or for any other temporary
cause whatever, to attend to his duties as such police justice, it shall be
the duty of the State's Attorney for said county to designate and require
another justice of the peace to perform the duties of said police justice
so sick, absent or otherwise unable to perform the duties of his said office,
so long as the same may be necessary, or until the Governor shall select
another to perform said duties, and the said State's Attorney shall forth-
with certify in writing any selection he may make to the County Com-
missioners of Kent county. The justice so required to perform said duties
as police justice shall receive the same compensation as prescribed by law
for the police justice and shall be paid by the County Commissioners, who.
shall deduct the same from the salary of the police justice.

1902, ch. 161, sec. 138D.

225. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace of Kent county,
where the police justice is not accessible, to issue a State writ for the
arrest of any person violating any of the laws of this State, or any ordi-
nances of the town of Chestertown; but when issued by any justice of
the peace other than the police justice said writ shall be made returnable
before the police justice and not before the justice issuing the same; the
said police justice alone being authorized to try criminal cases in said
district; and when said writ is so issued and returned the said justice so
issuing the same shall be allowed the fee therefor now fixed by law,
which fee shall be taxed in the cost of the case and paid by Kent county,
unless the same be adjudged against the party arrested and paid by him.

1902, ch. 161, sec. 138E.

226. Whenever any person shall be arrested charged with the commis-
sion of any criminal offense, within the Fourth or Chestertown Election
District of said county, or with the violation of any of the ordinances of
the town of Chestertown, it shall be the duty of the officer making said
arrest to take the person so arrested before the police justice selected under
this Act, whether such arrest shall be made upon the warrant of said
police justice or of some other justice, as authorized by Section 225 of this
Article, or whether such arrest is made without writ or warrant in cases
where by law such arrest may be so made; and the officer making such
arrest shall be entitled to receive five cents per mile for conveying each
prisoner before the police justice.

1902, ch. 161, sec. 138F.

227. Every justice of the peace selected under this Act as police jus-
tice, shall file with the County Commissioners of Kent county, on the first
days of January, April, July and October, in each and every year, an
account, verified by his oath or affirmation, of all fines, forfeitures and
penalties imposed by him under the laws of this State, or under any ordi-
nances of the town of Chestertown, which said account shall show the