3668 ARTICLE 16.

The said justice of the peace shall, on the first day of every month
following his appointment, account for and pay over to the County Com-
missioners of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, respectively, all
fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs imposed by him, which he shall re-
ceive for, or on account of, criminal offenses tried before him in those
respective counties under the provisions of the public general laws and
the public local laws, except for violation of the ordinances of the said
town which fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs shall be paid to the Town
of Takoma Park.

The said justice of the peace shall collect the fees now allowed by law
in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties to other justices of the
peace in those counties respectively for issuing any warrant of arrest or
summons for witnesses or for hearings, trial judgment and commitment
and shall also collect the same fees as other justices of the peace in the said
counties are respectively allowed in civil actions. On the first day of each
month following his appointment, he shall act for and pay over to the said
county commissioners of each county respectively, all such fees so collected
by him on account of civil or criminal actions arising in each county. The
said justice of the peace shall be paid a salary of $1,200 per annum,
which shall include all expenses in connection with the duties of his office
and the maintenance thereof and he shall receive no other fees or com-
pensation of any other kind, nature or description in connection with his.
office. One-half of his salary shall be paid by the Town of Takoma Park,
Maryland, from its general revenues and the remaining one-half shall be
paid by the County Commissioners of Montgomery County; and the said
County Commissioners of Montgomery County are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to include in their next annual levy on all the
assessable property in Montgomery County, and each succeeding levy, an
amount necessary to pay the said portion of the salary of the said Justice
so to be paid by the County Commissioners of Montgomery County.*

POPLAR AVENUE.

1918, ch 447, sec. 1.

981. On and after the 15th day of June, 1918, the Mayor and Com-
mon Council of the Town of Takoma Park, in Prince George's and Mont-
gomery Counties, are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to take
over, maintain, keep in repair and open for public travel the road known
as that part of Poplar avenue which runs through Block No. 16 of said
Town, and which connects Poplar avenue, as now laid out in said Town
at its intersection with Elm avenue, with Park avenue, now known as the
Ray road in Prince George's County. The metes and bounds of said road
in Block No. 16 being as follows : Beginning at a point where the westerly
line of Park avenue or the Railroad intersects the southerly line of the
said Block No. 16, and running thence North 42 degrees 28 minutes West,
173.4 feet; thence North 17 degrees 29 minutes West 92.6 feet to the
South side of Elm avenue; thence North 86 degrees East 41.13 feet;
thence South 17 degrees 29 minutes East 73 feet; thence South 42 degrees;

*Sec. 2, ch. 291, 1929, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.