MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3449

POLICE JUSTICE.

1910, ch. 294, sec. 1. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 330. 1912, ch. 782, sec. 1A.

1920, ch. 694, sec. 1A. 1922, ch. 518, sec. 1A.

1927, oh. 321, sec. 1A.

493. The Governor is hereby authorized, empowered and directed by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the State of Maryland,
if in session and without the consent and approval of the Senate if not
in session, to biennially appoint a Justice of the Peace for Montgomery
County, at large, and to designate said Justice of the Peace, appointed by
the provisions of this Act as Police Justice.

1910, ch. 294, sec. 2. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 331. 1927, ch. 321, sec. 2.

494. Said Police Justice shall be a resident of the County of Mont-
gomery, in the State of Maryland, and who, before he acts as such shall
give bond to the State of Maryland, in the penalty of one thousand dollars,
with a surety or sureties to be approved by the County Commissioners
of said Montgomery County, conditioned that he will well and faithfully
execute the duties and obligations of Justice of the Peace, and that he
will account for and pay over to the County Commissioners of said county
all fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs imposed by him, which he shall
receive for or on account of criminal offenses tried before him, under
the provisions of the Public General Laws, and the Public Local Laws,
which bond shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the Circuit Court for
said county, and which shall be liable at the suit of the State for the use
of the said County Commissioners in case of default of any of its con-
ditions.

1910, ch. 294, sec. 3. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 332. 1927, ch. 321, sec. 3.

495. The Justice of the Peace, appointed by virtue of this Act shall
have an office in the Court House, at Rockville, or other suitable place in
said town of Rockville, to be provided by the County Commissioners for
said county, and shall attend at his office as often as the business of same
may require his attention, and at least four days of each and every week
beginning at 10 o'clock A. M. and continuing in session as long as the
business of the said Court may require.

1912, ch. 790, sec. 333. 1927, ch. 321, sec. 4.

496. The said Police Justice herein provided shall have the same juris-
diction in civil actions as other Justices of the Peace of the said County and
shall have criminal jurisdiction, concurrent with that exercised by the Cir-
cuit Court for Montgomery County, in all cases of assault and battery,
cruelty to animals, vagrancy, drunkenness and disorderly conduct, disturb-
ance of the public peace, wrongfully opening or breaking the seal of any
letter not addressed to the party, selling deadly weapons to minors, obscene
publications, blasphemy, destroying bounded or boundary trees, fraud upon
turnpike companies, all charges of violations of health laws, violation of
laws relating to turnpike companies, failing to keep a light reflecting upon