1134 FINES AND FORFEITURES. [ART. 38

by any agent appointed for that purpose, subject to the ratifi-
cation of the commissioners or mayor.

1888, art 37. sec. 22. 1860, art. 39, sec. 22. 1833, ch. 151. 1836, ch. 109.
22. All bonds taken under the provisions of this article
shall be delivered to the clerk of the circuit court for the
county in which they shall be given, or the clerk of the super-
for court of Baltimore city, if given in said city, to be by him
recorded.

ARTICLE XXXVIII.

FINES AND FORFEITURES.

1. Mode of recovering. 2. To whom paid when recovered. 3. Discharge from jail for non-pay- ment of.

4. Distribution of fines and for- feited recognizances; to what counties this section is appli- cable.

1888, art. 38, sec. 1. 1860, art. 40, sec. 1. 1777, ch. 6. 1880, ch. 211.

1, When any fine or penalty is imposed by any act of
assembly of this State or by any ordinance of any incorporated
city or town in this State enacted in pursuance of sufficient
authority, for the doing of any act forbidden to be done by
such act of assembly or ordinance, or for omitting to do any
act required to be done by such act of assembly or ordinance,
the doing of such act or the omission to do such act shall be
deemed to be a criminal offense; such offense in the city of
Baltimore shall be prosecuted by the arrest of the offender for
such offense and by holding him to appear in or committing
him for trial in the criminal court of Baltimore, which said
court shall have jurisdiction in the said cases and shall proceed
to try or dispose of the same in the same manner as other
criminal cases may be tried or proceeded with or disposed of,
or such offense may be prosecuted by indictment in such court;
such offenses in any county of this State shall be prosecuted
by the arrest of the- offender for such offense and by holding
him to bail to appear in or committing him for trial in the
circuit court for the county in which such offense was com-
mitted, or by indictment in the circuit court for such county
for such offense. If any person shall be adjudged guilty of