4108 AETICLE 17.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

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

973. 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.

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 tho 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,.