XII.—RECOVERY OF FINES AND PENALTIES.

1 Fines and penalties, and bow recovered 2 No person to be liable for action for debt and indictment for same offence 3 Fines, how to be disposed of.

4 What imprisonment to discharge fines, etc , persons unable to pay fines and costs 5. Where judgment imposing fine is affirmed, court to bave power to commit. Limit of imprisonment.

1. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures, where the law imposing them does not prescribe the mode of collecting or enforcing them, shall be collected as follows: if not exceeding one hundred dollars, by action of debt in the name of the State before a justice of the peace; if exceeding one hundred dollars, by action of debt in the name of the State in the Circuit Court for the county where the offence was committed; or if in the city of Baltimore, in any court having jurisdiction in civil common-law cases, or if the fine, penalty, or forfeiture exceeds twenty dollars, the same may be col-	Const Art 4, s 28; Art 40, s 1 1777, c 6. Fines, penal- ties, etc , how recovered 5 Md 337 7 Gill 322
lected and enforced by indictment in the court having criminal juiisdiction in the county or city where the offence was committed. 2. No person shall be liable to an action of debt and to an in- dictment for the same offence, but whichever proceeding is first instituted shall be prosecuted and the other abandoned.	Id s 2 1777, c 6; 1792, c 20 No person to be liable to action for debt and indictment for same offence
3. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures, when recovered, shall be paid to the county or city where the same may be imposed, unless directed to be paid otherwise by the law imposing them; but if there be an informer, he shall have half, unless otherwise provided; this section not to apply to fines or forfeitures for offences at com- mon law.	Id s 3 1777, c 6, 1842, c 22 Fines, how to be disposed of.
4. Any person who shall or may hereafter be committed to jail by the judgment of any court of justice, or by any justice of the peace of this State, for non-payment of any fine and costs not ex- ceeding the sum of fifty dollars, who shall bave remained in custody as aforesaid for the space of thirty days, or any person who shall or may hereafter be committed to jail in manner aforesaid for non- payment of any fine and costs above fifty, and not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, who shall have remained in custody afore- said for the space of sixty days, shall be discharged from further imprisonment on account of said fine and costs; provided, such person shall prove to the satisfaction of the court imposing said	1874, c. 59 Wbat imprison- ment to dis- charge fines, etc.
fine and costs, or any judge thereof, or justice of the peace, as the case may be, that he or she is unable to pay said fine and costs. 46	Persons unable to pay fines and costs.