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under summons; the pay of each bailiff and messenger to the
court shall be two dollars per day; the per diem of each crier to
said court shall be two dollars, and the same fees as are now
allowed; and the certificate of the clerk of the circuit court, ex-
pressing the number of days any of the aforegoing officers, jurors
or witnesses, whose fees are properly chargeable against the
county, may be entitled to for such attendance, shall be sufficient
authority for the treasurer of said county to pay the amount
therein specified on presentation.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.

1872, ch. 155. 1876, ch. 299. 1882, ch. 404.

82. There shall be the following number of justices of the
peace and constables for Charles county, to wit: for election
district number one, one justice of the peace and two constables;
for election district number two, two justices of the peace and
two constables; for election district number three, three justices
of the peace and two constables; for election district number
four, three justices of the peace and two constables; for election
district number five, two justices of the peace and two constables;
for election district number six, three justices of the peace and
two constables; for election district number seven, two justices of
the peace and two constables; for election district number eight,
four justices of the peace and two constables; and f or election
district number nine, two justices of the peace and two constables.

1870, ch. 484.

83. The justices of the peace in and for Charles, Carroll
Caroline, Dorchester, Harford, Kent, Prince George's, Queen
Anne's, Worcester, Anne Arundel, and Calvert counties, shall
have jurisdiction over and may take cognizance of all actions of
assault and battery in which the damages claimed do not exceed
the sum of one hundred dollars; and also criminal jurisdiction
in all cases of assault and battery committed in said counties,
unless it shall appear to the said justices of the peace, upon the
hearing of the case, that the said assault and battery was com-
mitted with intent to kill.