ART. 4.] JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES. 479

his discretion, and any other justice of the peace may be selected
by the governor to perform the said duties at said station house.

1876, ch. 28.

619. Each justice of the peace selected to sit at a station
house in the city of Baltimore shall receive the sum of one hun-
dred and seventy-five dollars per month, or a proportionable part
thereof, so long as he shall continue to act at a station house in said
city, under the selection of the governor; which sum of money
shall be paid to him by the register of the city of Baltimore, at
the end of each month of his said service, or a proportionable part
thereof, at the end of any portion of a month at which the ser-
vice of such justice of the peace at said station house may termi-
nate, upon the certificate of the board of police commissioners of
Baltimore city, that such service has been rendered under the
appointment of the governor as aforesaid; and no justice of the
peace selected for a station house shall be permitted to charge
any fee, or receive any gratuity for granting any release, or for
the performance of any duty required by law.

1880, ch. 461.

620. If any justice of the peace who has been selected as
aforesaid to sit at any station house in the city of Baltimore is
unable, by reason of sickness or other unavoidable cause, to attend
to his duty at said station house, or fails to attend at said station
house, at any time, when his presence is there required, it shall
be the duty of the board of police commissioners of Baltimore
city to require another justice of the peace to perform the duties
at said station house, of the said justice of the peace so sick or
absent; and it shall be the duty of the justice of the peace so
required to perform said duties at said station house, to perform
the same so long as may be necessary, or until the governor shall
select another justice to perform said duties; the justice of the
peace so required to perform said duties at said station house, by
the said board of police commissioners, in place of the justice
selected by the governor, shall receive six dollars per day for
every day he shall actually serve at such station house; which pay
shall be deducted from the pay provided to be paid to the justice
selected to sit at such station house and failing to attend; pro-