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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of the Peace and Constables," as introduced by an

act passed at the session of eighteen hundred and

seventy-six, and entitled "An act to repeal sections

six hundred and nineteen, six hundred and twenty,

six hundred and twenty-five, six hundred and twenty-

six, six hundred and twenty-seven, six hundred and

twenty-eight of article four of the Public Local

Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-title " Justices

of the Peace and Constables," and to enact cer-

tain sections in lieu of the sections so repealed, be

and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so

as to read as follows :

SECTION 628 A. 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

Failure to at-

of sickness or other unavoidable cause, to attend to

tend to duty.

his duties at said station house, or fails to attend at

said said station house, at any time, when his pres-

ence is there required, as provided for by this act,

it shall be the duty of the Board of Police Commis-

sioners 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 sta-

tion 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 sta-

tion house, by the said board of police commissioners

in place of the justice selected by the Governor, shall

Amount of

receive six dollars per day for every day he shall

pay.

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 fail-

ing to attend ; provided 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 de-

ducted from the pay of said last named justice, if

the said board of police commissioners shall certify

that such absence was by reason of his necessary at-

tendance 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 the said board of police commissioners