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	107. Trial Rooms.	111. Corporate Bond.
	108. Schedules.	112. Reports and Remittances.
	109. Powers and Process.	113. Levy of necessary taxes.
	110. Substitute Magistrates.	114. Penalties.

Qualification.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 172. 1854, ch. 18.

1927, ch. 646, sec. 1.

1. Within thirty days after his commission shall have been received in
the clerk's office of the county or city, every Justice of the Peace shall take
and subscribe the oaths and declaration prescribed by the Constitution;
and at the same time every Justice of the Peace shall file with the clerk
of the court receiving his said commission a good and sufficient bond to the
State of Maryland with security to be approved by said clerk in the pen-
alty of five hundred dollars ($500) conditioned that he will faithfully dis-
charge, execute and perform all and singular the duties and obligations of
Justice of the Peace, that he will truly account for and pay over to the
proper State officer or officers all money coming into his hands and belong-
ing to the State of Maryland at the times fixed by law for the payment
thereof, and that he will truly account for and pay over to the person or
corporation entitled to receive the same all money belonging to such person
or corporation which may come into his hands; and upon his failure within
the time named to take and subscribe said oaths and declaration and file
said approved bond, his office shall be deemed vacant.

1927, ch. 646, sec. 1A.

2. Every such justice shall at the time of filing his approved bond
pay to the clerk his proper fees for recording the same and the same shall
be recorded by said clerk and a copy of the record of every such bond under
the hand of the clerk and seal of the court of which he is clerk, shall be
good and sufficient evidence in any court of this State to prove such bond.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 2. 1914, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1814, ch. 82, sec. 3.

3. No person commissioned as a justice of the peace shall act as such
before he has taken the oath and made the declaration required by law;
and every person violating this section shall, for each offense, forfeit and
pay the sum of forty dollars.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 3. 1912, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1814, ch. 82, sec. 4.

4. If any justice of the peace, having qualified as such, shall accept
any office under the government of the United States and shall still act as
justice of the peace, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the
sum of forty dollars.

New Election Districts and New Wards of Baltimore City.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 4. 1912, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1888, sec. 4. 1852, ch. 274, sec. 3.

5. For each new election district that may be formed and established
in the several counties and for each additional ward that may be created
in the city of Baltimore, there shall be appointed, as prescribed by the
constitution, two justices of the peace, unless a different number be spe-
cially provided by law.

Cited in Humphreys v. Walls, 169 Md. 300.