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Code of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, 1930
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4792 ARTICLE 22.

and twenty-five, constituting Hagerstown and vicinity, shall be and they
are hereby constituted the police justices of Hagerstown, each of said
justices shall be furnished with copies of the ordinances of the town, and
each shall keep a separate docket for corporation cases, and therein record
and make regular entries of the proceedings, in all such cases, setting forth
fine or imprisonment imposed and the amount of costs, and he shall sub-
mit said docket to the inspection of any person who may request to see
the same and upon demand of any person interested shall deliver a copy
of any judgment rendered by him. It shall be the duty of each of said
justices to make out a summarized statement of all corporation cases
tried before him, with the fines and costs therein collected, which state-
ment shall be submitted monthly to the Council after being sworn to before
the Mayor. Upon the request of the Council, the said justices shall pro-
duce their dockets and may be placed under oath and interrogated as to
the entries therein. They shall pay over to the tax collector quarterly all
fines collected by them. Each of the justices of the peace appointed for
the districts constituting Hagerstown and vicinity shall receive the sum
of thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents per month, payable in cash at
the end of each and every month, and all stationery supplies and office
equipment used by said justices in the town business shall be furnished
them by the Mayor and Council.

P. L. L, 1888, Art. 22, sec. 179. 1884, ch. 58. 1902, ch. 138, sec. 179.

340. If either of the justices of the peace for the districts constituting
Hagerstown and vicinity wilfully neglects to discharge any of the duties
imposed upon him by the charter and ordinances of Hagerstown, or refuses
to pay over the fines collected by him as herein directed, he shall be liable
to indictment in the Circuit Court for Washington county, and upon con-
viction he shall be fined the sum of fifty dollars or imprisoned in the
county jail for a term not exceeding three months, or both, in the discre-
tion of the Court.

1906, ch. 222.

341. The Mayor and Council shall provide two officers* centrally lo-
cated, one for each of two justices of the peace for districts three, seven-
teen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-four and twenty-five, constituting
Hagerstown and vicinity; provided, however, that the two justices of the
peace may have their offices together should they so desire.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 180. 1884, ch. 58.

342. From any judgment rendered by either of the police justices in
the enforcement of the ordinances of the town, an appeal shall lie by the
person aggrieved, to the circuit court for Washington county; provided,
the appeal is taken within three days after the rendering of judgment; and
provided the person aggrieved shall enter into good and sufficient bond
for the faithful prosecution of the appeal, and for the payment of all

*"Offices" evidently intended.

 

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