MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3667

1898, ch. 125, sec. 5. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 631.

979. The title to said water works, sewerage system and electric light-
ing plant, and all lands, estates, water-courses, water-ways, conduit pipes,
machinery, and all other parts thereof whatever, and all property belong-
ing and pertaining thereto shall, when completed as required, vest in said
town of Takoma Park, and any person who shall knowingly or wilfully
pollute any spring, stream, brook, water course, or reservoir in connection
with said water works so built or erected, by throwing or placing any im-
pure or deleterious substance or thing into the same or by swimming,
bathing or washing themselves, or by washing clothes or any unclean or
impure thing therein, or by committing or permitting any nuisance in or
near the sources of supply, or the reservoirs, for said water works so as
to pollute the same shall, upon conviction of such offense, be liable to a
fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, to be
recovered by the town of Takoma Park before a justice of the peace, as

-other fines are recoverable, one-half of such fine to go to the informer, and
the balance to the town of Takoma Park for the purposes of said water
works and sewer system.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

1900, ch. 38, sec. 1. 1912, ch. 790, gee. 620 1922, ch. 362. 1929, ch. 291.

980. The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered, upon the
recommendation of the Mayor and Council of the Town of Takoma Park,
to appoint a justice of the peace for the said town, situate partly in Mont-
gomery County and partly in Prince George's County, whose jurisdiction
shall be confined to the limits of the said town. In that portion of the
said town which is within the territorial limits of Montgomery County, the
said justice of the peace shall have concurrent civil and criminal jurisdic-
tion with the police justice at Rockville; and in that portion of the said
town which is within the territorial limits of Prince George's County,
the said justice of the peace shall have concurrent civil and criminal juris-
diction with the Police Justice of Prince George's County as defined by
Chapter 426 of the Laws of Maryland of 1927, or any amendment or re-

enactment of that Chapter or any other Act now in effect or hereafter
enacted defining the said juridiction of the said Police Justice of Prince
George's County. The Mayor and Council of the said town may in their

discretion require the said justice of the peace to give a bond to the Town
of Takoma Park, Maryland, in such penalty as may be fixed by the said
Mayor and Council, not to exceed $500 with a surety to be approved by
the said Mayor and Council, conditioned that he will well and faithfully
perform the duties and obligations of justice of the peace within the
territorial limits of the said town, as such duties are defined in this Act
and other statutes of this State, which bond, if required by the Mayor and
Council as aforesaid, shall be filed with the clerk of the said town. If
such bond is required by the Mayor and Council, the said justice of the
peace shall furnish said bond before he acts as such.