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other Justices of the Peace in criminal cases strictly confined. That the
several Justices of the Peace of said county shall have the power and
authority to issue civil write in all cases so far as civil jurisdiction is
concerned as had and possessed by them on the first day of January, 1922,
and try, hear and determine same.

1927, ch. 321, sec. 6.

498. Whenever any warrant is sworn out before any of the said Jus-
tices of the Peace for any offense committed in said county, which offense
the said Justice of the Peace has no power to hear and try, then it shall
be the duty of the said Justices of the Peace before whom such a warrant
is sworn out to make the same returnable before the said Police Justice
for hearing and trial.

1912, ch. 790, sec. 334. 1927, ch. 321, sec. 7.

499. Whenever any person shall be arrested in said Montgomery Coun-
ty, upon any criminal charge or for the violation of any law of this State
whether such arrest is made without writ or is made under a warrant
issued by any Justice of the Peace, of the said Montgomery County, it
shall be the duty of such officer making such arrest or in whose custody
the person so arrested may be, to take the person so arrested before the
said Police Justice or one of the Justices of the Peace of said county
according as is stated in the command or return of the writ or warrant,
for hearing or trial and in criminal cases the said Police Justice or Justices
of the Peace as the case may be, of his own motion, or on the motion of the
State's Attorney for said county may at any time during the trial before
final judgment amend the information, warrant, docket entries, name of
the offender or other proceedings, in any such case pending before him;
and in all criminal trials in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County,
to which cases have been removed on an application for a jury trial or on
an appeal from the judgment of said Police Justice the Circuit Court on
motion of the State's Attorney for said county, may at any time, before
the trial or during the progress of trial, or before final judgment, amend
the information, warrant, docket entries, name of the offender or other
proceedings in such case, so that before the Police Justice or Circuit Court,
as the case may be, such case may be tried on its merits and the purposes
of justice subserved; provided, however, that in the Circuit Court such
amendment does not change the character of the offense or crime with
which the accused is charged.

1912, ch. 790, sec. 335. 1927, ch. 321, sec. 8.

500. Said Police Justice shall be paid a salary of three thousand dol-
lars ($3,000) a year, said salary to be paid monthly by the County Com-
missioners of Montgomery County, and shall be in lieu of all fees of every
kind, nature or description. That all fees, civil and criminal, charged
or taxed as part of the cost and collected by the Police Justice shall be
paid over to the County Commissioners and by the County Commissioners