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the county wherein said judgment was rendered, and no part of any fine
or penalty enforced or collected by them shall be paid to any informer.

1916, ch. 520.

575. No Justice of the Peace in Prince George's County shall per-
form any duty of his office in civil cases until the plaintiff or moving party
shall first pay the fee provided by law to said Justice of the Peace for
said service; provided any person desiring to bring a suit before any
Justice of the Peace of Prince George's County, who may make oath in
writing, that he is unable to pay the costs provided for herein, and has no
property or assets upon which he can borrow the same, then, and in that
event the Justice shall make an order allowing said suit to be filed without
prepayment of costs as herein provided.

REMOVAL OF CASES.

1908, ch. 315, sec. 182A. 1912 Code, sec. 344. 1914, ch. 178.

576. Any defendant or his agent, or attorney who shall make sugges-
tion in writing upon oath, before any officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments of deeds or mortgages under the laws of the State of
Maryland, that he does not believe such defendant can have a fair and
impartial trial in any civil or criminal case pending before any justice
of the peace of Prince George's County in which such defendant is a
party, shall have the right at any time before trial upon making said
written suggestion and oath as aforesaid to have such pending case removed
before a justice of the peace in an election distrcit adjoining the district
in which the said case was instituted. The justice before whom such
case was instituted shall upon payment of his costs accrued to the date
of removal in civil cases designate a justice of the peace in an adjoining
election district as aforesaid and forthwith transfer all the papers and a
record of his proceedings in the case to said justice to whom such case
shall be removed, and the justice to whom such case shall be removed,
shall forthwith set the case for trial at a time not less than six nor more
than fourteen days from the date of the receipt of the papers and shall
issue such summons as may be necessary; and shall at once notify the
plaintiff and defendant, or their respective attorneys, of the time so set
for trial, and shall take such further action in the case as if the same had
been originally instituted before him; but where any defendant in any
criminal case pending before a justice of the peace in Prince George's
County, State of Maryland, makes oath as above set forth in this Sec-
tion, he shall not be required to pay to said justice of the peace the costs
accrued to date before said case shall be removed to an adjoining district
and before another justice of the peace for trial, but upon his having made
the oath as above required, the justice of the peace shall forthwith send
his case to another justice in an adjoining district, and said justice to
whom said defendant's case is removed, shall fix such reasonable time for
the trial of the defendant, as the nature of his offense requires, and that