3454 ARTICLE 16.

son because of the alleged commission by such person of any criminal
offense carefully examined into to the end that while justice shall be done,
no person shall be subjected to costs or imprisonment without sufficient
cause.

1912, ch. 790, sec. 340. 1927, ch. 321, sec. 12.

504. In all criminal prosecutions or proceedings had before the Police
Justice of Montgomery County of which the said Justice has jurisdic-
tion it shall be the duty of the said Police Justice, in the event of con-
viction of the accused at the said trial, to impose upon the said accused so
convicted the fine or fines and punishment prescribed in the case of such
conviction by the Act of Assembly of Maryland or by ordinance of any
incorporated town in Montgomery County, for the violation of which the
accused was so tried; provided, however, that no Justice of the Peace
shall have the power or authority to sentence any convicted prisoner for
the commission of any felony. That said Police Justice shall have the
right to issue a summons for the attendance of any witness in any case
under consideration by said Justice, and upon the failure of any person
to attend before said Justice, in response to said summons at the time and
place mentioned in said summons, he shall be liable, in the discretion of
said Police Justice, to a fine not exceeding $5.00, for his non-attendance
in response to the said summons, which fine shall be collected as other
fines are collected, and in default of payment thereof by commitment to
the Montgomery County Jail for not exceeding five days; provided, how-
ever, the proof shows that a written or printed notice of the said summons
was duly served upon the witness in person by some one duly authorized
under the law to summon witnesses in such case. That said Police Jus-
tice shall have the right to preserve order and decorum when sitting in
his office in the discharge of his duties, and shall have the right to punish
any breach of order or decorum committed in his presence when so sitting
by a fine not exceeding $10.00, to be collected as other fines are collected,
and in default of payment thereof by commitment to the Montgomery
County Jail for a period not exceeding ten days; provided that in all cases
where fine is imposed under this section the party on whom the said fine
is imposed, if he feels aggrieved thereby, may within three days, exclusive
of the date of imposition of said fine, appeal to the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County from the action of the said Police Justice in such
case, and pending the hearing of said appeal, shall give surety for his
- appearance in the Circuit Court aforesaid in the sum of twice the amount
of the fine so imposed, which surety may be furnished by the deposit of
the amount so named in cash with said Justice as collateral for his appear-
ance to prosecute said appeal; provided no appeal shall be allowed under
this section after payment of the fine, but deposit of each as collateral
security in double the amount of the fine shall not be construed to be a
payment of the said fine.