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bail, sixty cents; for every warrant of attachment against a resident debtor,
fifty cents; for every attachment against every non-resident or absconding
debtor, one dollar and twenty-five cents; for entering judgment by con-
fession on promissory notes, seventy-five cents; for taking every acknowl-
edgment of every deed or other instrument of writing for each person
making an acknowledgment, thirty cents; for issuing an attachment by
way of execution, fifty cents; for taking replevin or other bonds, fifty

cents; for entering every continuance, twenty-five cents; for every tran-
script of docket, twenty-five cents; for issuing State writ, fifty cents; for
issuing search warrant, fifty cents; for taking recognizance of each wit-
ness, thirty cents; for taking recognizances of each report to Court, thirty

cents; for every commitment, fifty cents; for every release, fifty cents;
for holding an inquest upon a deceased person, five dollars.*

POLICE JUSTICE.

1929, ch. 69, sec. 1.

267. The Governor of this State is hereby authorized, empowered and

directed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the State of
Maryland, if in session and without the consent and approval of the
Senate if not in session, to bi-ennially appoint a Justice of the Peace for
Queen Anne's County, at large, and to designate said Justice of the Peace,
appointed by the provisions of this Act as Police Justice.

1929, ch. 69, sec. 2.

268. Said Police Justice shall be a resident of the County of Queen
Anne's, in the State of Maryland, and who, before he acts as such shall

give bond to the State of Maryland, in the penalty of one thousand dollars,
with a surety or sureties to be approved by the County Commissioners of

said Queen Anne's County, conditioned that he will well and faithfully exe-
cute the duties and obligations of Justice of the Peace, and that he will
account for and pay over to the County Commissioners of said county
all fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs imposed by him, which he shall
receive for or on account of criminal offenses tried before him, under the
provisions of the Public General Laws, and the Public Local Laws, which
bond shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the Circuit Court for said
county, and which shall be liable at the suit of the State for the use of
the said County Commissioners in case of default of any of its conditions.

1929, ch. 69, sec. 3.

269. The Justice of the Peace, appointed by virtue of this Act shall
have an office in the Court House, at Centreville, or other suitable place
in said town of Centreville, to be provided by the County Commission-
ers for said county, and shall attend or be within call at his office at
such times as the business of his office may require his attention; pro-
vided that the said Police Justice may, whenever he may deem it neces-

*Sec. 2, ch. 214, 1927, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.