TALBOT COUNTY. 4591

four justices of the peace and four constables; for election district number
two, four justices of the peace and three constables; for election district
number three, four justices of the peace and three constables; for election
district number four, three justices of the peace and two constables; for
election district number five, three justices of the peace and two constables.

1894, ch. 141.

270. The County Commissioners of Talbot county are hereby author-
ized and empowered to appoint, in addition to the two constables now pro-
vided for by law, one other constable in the 4th district of said county,
who shall reside and have his office not more than one-half mile from
Hillsborough-bridge, in Talbot county.

POLICE JUSTICES.

1900, ch. 517, sec. 117A. 1914, ch. 425, sec. 117A.

271. It shall be the duty of the Governor after the appointment of the
Justices of the Peace provided by Section 269 to select from said Jus-
tices so appointed one from the Easton District who shall be known as
"Police Justice." The said Police Justice shall have the same jurisdic-
tion in criminal cases as Justices of the Peace of Talbot County now
possess, and which may hereafter be conferred upon them and under the
laws of this State, but shall have no civil jurisdiction. The said Police
Justice so selected shall be required to hear, try and determine all viola-
tions of the Criminal Laws which may arise in said Easton District, sub-
ject, however, to the same right of election to be tried by jury as now
exists under the law, notice of which right must be given by the Police
Justice to the accused before beginning trial. Provided, however, that
nothing herein contained shall preclude said Police Justice from hearing,
trying and determining criminal cases which may arise in any other dis-
trict of said County, when the oath, information or State's warrant,
under and by which the accused is apprehended shall have been sworn
out before, and issued by him, or when the accused is brought before him
by virtue of a State's warrant issued by any other Justice of the Peace
of Talbot County, and made returnable before said Police Justice, and
jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all such cases is hereby expressly
conferred upon said Police Justice. And the said Police Justice shall be
required to hold all coroner's inquests and inspections that may be neces-
sary to be held in said Easton District should there be no coroner ap-
pointed for said district.

1914, ch. 425, sec. 117B.

272. The said Police Justice shall receive as compensation for his
services a salary of Seventy-five Dollars per month or proportionate part
thereof, as long as he shall continue to be such Police Justice in said
district, which salary shall be paid to him by the County Commissioners
of Talbot County on the first Mondays in July, October, January and