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each case reported to the Circuit Court, including witnesses, twenty-five
cents. The fees for services of the justices of peace in and for districts
3, 17, 21, 22, 24 and 25 of said county shall be the same as here.in allowed
to justices in other districts, but shall be taxed, collected and accounted
for by them as in the preceding sections of the Act provided.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 272. 1884, ch. 510.

557. The aforesaid fees of said constables and justices for said coun-
ties shall be taxed against and paid by the party against whom judgment

shall be rendered, unless he or she be discharged therefrom by due course
of law; if such party against whom judgment is rendered is unable to pay
the same, such fees shall be paid by the county wherein said judgment was
rendered; and all fines and penalties received by any justice under the

provisions of Section 554, shall be accounte'd for and wholly paid without
abatement or deduction therefrom by such justice, to the county commis-
rsioners of the county wherein they are collected, for the use of said county;
and no part of any fine or penalty enforced or collected under said section
shall be paid to any informer.

JUVENILE COURT.

1924, ch. 36, sec. 272A.

558. In addition to the Justices of the Peace hereinbefore provided
for in this Article, there shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with
the consent of the Senate, and if the Senate shall not be in session, by the

Governor, from Washington County at large, an additional Justice of the
Peace, to be also known as the Magistrate for Juvenile Cases, whose term
of office shall begin on the first Monday of May, 1924, and who shall there-
after be appointed in conformity with the Constitution of this State, and
who shall be a member of the Bar of the Circuit Court for Washington

County, and who shall not by reason of such appointment be debarred from
practicing law in any of the Courts of this State, who shall receive a sal-
ary of two thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, two-thirds by

the County Commissioners of Washington County, and the other one-third
by the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, and the jurisdictions and pow-
ers of such Justices shall be as follows:

(1) He shall possess the general powers of a Justice of the Peace, and
also the powers of a Police Justice of Hagerstown, as the same are now

or may hereafter be defined by law.

(2) He shall have full power and jurisdiction over and with respect
to all delinquent, neglected and dependent minors under the age of six-
teen years, and of any and all persons causing, encouraging or contribut-
ing towards the delinquency, neglect or dependency of any such minor.

(3) He shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases of trial or com-
mitment for trial or commitment to any Juvenile Institution of any minor
under sixteen years of age, and shall have plenary jurisdiction to hear,

*Sec. 2, oh. 137, 1902, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.