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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 73.

AN ACT to provide for the trial by the Police Justice of the

Peace of election district number two in Frederick County,

of persons charged with violating any of the ordinances of

the mayor and aldermen of Frederick, and to repeal sec-

tion 183 and to repeal and re-enact with amendments,

sections 238, 253 and 255 of article 11 of the Code of

Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled " Frederick

County," sub-title " Frederick."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repealed
and re-

Maryland, That section 183 of article 11 of the Code of Public .

enacted.

Local Laws of Maryland, entitled " Frederick County,"

sub-title "Frederick," be and the same is hereby repealed,

and sections 238, 253 and 255 of said article eleven are

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 238. In cases in which any person shall be found

guilty of violating any ordinance of the Corporation of

Frederick, it shall and may be lawful for the Police Justice

of the Peace df election district number two in Frederick

Policies

County, trying said cause, or for the mayor in the absence,

justice.

sickness or other disability of said police justice, trying

said cause, upon the conviction of the offender, to impose

the fine presented by the particular ordinance under which

said person is tried, and upon failure or refusal of the party

convicted thereof to pay such fine or costs, to commit the

person convicted to the Jail of Frederick County for the

time prescribed by said ordinance, unless the person con-

victed shall pay such fine and costs before the day limited

in such commitment, in which case the police justice or

mayor shall issue his order to the sheriff to release said person.

SEC. 253. In all appeals from the police justice or mayor

to the Circuit Court for Frederick County, the party appeal-

ing shall give bond, with at least two sureties, who shall

Give bond

be approved by the police justice or mayor, in a penalty

double the amount of the fine imposed and the costs which

may accrue on such appeal, which penalty shall be adjudged

by the police justice, and conditioned that if the party ap-

pealing shall not prosecute such appeal with effect at the

next term of the Circuit Court, and also pay and satisfy the

said mayor and aldermen, in case the judgment of the police

justice shall be affirmed, as well as the fine and costs ad-

judged by the police justice, as also all costs that shall be

awarded by the said court, then the said bond to be and re-

main in full force and effect, otherwise to be of non-effect,