WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4865

for a trial to be had before said justice; and should the offense charged be
one in which the said justices of the peace do not have trial jurisdiction,
then in that case said justices of the peace shall hold said person or per-
sons for a hearing on a day not later than three days from the day on
which said person or persons were brought before said justice of the peace,
and the said justices of the peace are hereby required to admit to bail any
person or persons so held for a hearing; provided, good and sufficient bail
is offered; said hearing may be adjourned from time to time, if the inter-
ests of justices so require; said adjournment to be not for more than three
days at any one time. But no justice shall admit any person to bail where
the offense charged is punishable by death. The form of the bond in such
cases shall be substantially as follows, and signed by the party accused and
his surety or sureties:

State of Maryland, Washington County, to wit:

We, ——— and ———, acknowledge ourselves to owe and stand justly in-
debted to the State of Maryland, in the sum of ———— dollars, to be made
and levied of our goods and chattels and lands and tenements, upon the-
condition that ——— be and appear in his proper person at the hearing or
trial, as the case may be, before ———, justice of the peace of the State of
Maryland, in and for Washington county, at his office, in ———, in Wash-
ington county, on the ——— day of ———, 19 , at ——— o'clock, — M.,
then and there to answer all such things as shall be alleged against ———
on hehalf of the State of Maryland, and not to depart without leave; and
in meantime to keep the peace and be of good behavior; then this bond to-
be void, otherwise to be and remain in force and virtue in law.

Taken, acknowledged and signed before me this ——— day of ——— 19—.

——————————-————, J. P.

And in cases where the defendant fails to make his appearance accord-
ing to the terms of the bond, the justice of the peace shall declare the bond
forfeited and shall so certify to the same and deliver the bond to the clerk
of the Circuit Court for Washington county, and shall notify the State's
Attorney of Washington county of said forfeiture, and then such pro-
ceedings shall be taken as are now had in cases where recognizances are
forfeited in the Circuit Courts.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 271. 1884, ch. 510. 1900, ch. 625, sec. 271.
1902, ch. 137, sec. 271.

556. The justices of the peace in Washington county, except the jus-
tices of the third, seventeenth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-fourth
and twenty-fifth districts, shall be entitled to charge for their services in
all criminal cases tried or heard before them, the following fees, to wit:
For issuing each State writ, twenty-five cents; for summoning all wit-
nesses on both sides in any case, fifty cents; for each trial, one dollar; for
every commitment, twenty-five cents; for every release, twenty-five cents;
for each attachment for contempt, twenty-five cents; for recognizance in