ART. 4.] JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES. 483

1876. ch. 28.

629. All costs paid to any justice of the peace sitting at any
station house shall be accounted for and paid by said justice
to the board of police commissioners of Baltimore city, to be by
them applied as directed by section t31 of this article.

P. G. L, (1860,) art 18, sec. 25.

630. It shall not be lawful for the justices of the peace of the
city of Baltimore to take supersedeas of any judgment recovered
in the court of common pleas, the superior court of Baltimore
city, or Baltimore city court, or any decree of the circuit court or
circuit court number two of Baltimore city, but such supersedeas
shall be taken bv the clerks of said courts, respectively.

1864, ch 179. 1870, ch 39.

631. If a justice of the peace in Baltimore city dies, resigns or
is removed, his docket and papers shall be delivered to the clerk
of the city court within thirty days thereafter.

CONSTABLES.

1876, ch. 28.

632. The mayor and city council of Baltimore are hereby
authorized to appoint two constables for each of the several wards
of Baltimore city. The said constables shall hold their respective
offices for two years from the date of their respective appoint-
ments, and until their respective successors are duly appointed
and qualified. The said mayor and city council of Baltimore are
hereby authorized to make the appointments directed by this sec-
tion on the fourth Monday in March in every second year,
accounting from the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six; pro-
vided, that the mayor of said city shall have full power in his
discretion to remove any of the said constables for any malcon-
duct in office, whether the said constable may be convicted in a
court of law, as hereinafter prescribed, or not.

Ibid.

633. If any justice of the peace or constable appointed under
the provisions of this sub-title of this article be convicted in a
court of law, of any misdemeanor in office, his removal from said