480 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

vided, that said pay of the said justice who may sit in the absence
of the justice so selected to sit at any station house, shall not be
deducted from the pay of the said last-named justice, if the said
board of police commissioners shall certify that such absence was
by reason of his necessary attendance upon any court or justice
of the peace of this State, under its process, nor when such absence
shall not exceed fifteen days in the course of any one year, and
when the said board of police commissioners, shall certify that
such last-named absence, not exceeding fifteen days, as aforesaid,
was occasioned by sickness or other unavoidable cause.

1888, ch. 336.

621. The said station-house justices are granted a leave of
absence, with pay, for fifteen days during each and every year;
and the board of police commissioners are authorized to designate
one of the civil magistrates to act in their place during said
absence, who shall be paid the same as the station-house justices,
receive.

1876. ch. 28.

622. No justice of the peace appointed under the provisions
of section 607 shall be paid by the city of Baltimore any fee for
issuing any State writ, or for any search warrant, or for taking
the recognizance of any witness, or for taking any recognizance in
any case reported to court, or for any commitment or release, or
for issuing any subpoena in any criminal case, or in any case in-
stituted to recover any fine, penalty or forfeiture claimed by the
State of Maryland, or by the mayor and city council of Balti-
more; and no police officer or constable shall be paid by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore any fee for the service of
any subpoena or process in any criminal case, before any justice
of the peace, or for service of any subpoena or process in any
case pending before any justice of the peace, for the recovery of
any fine, forfeiture or penalty by the State of Maryland or by
the mayor and city council of Baltimore.

Ibid.

623. It shall be the duty of the officers of police, policemen
and detectives appointed by the board of police commissioners
of Baltimore city, to serve and execute any and all writs, war