FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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and no such appeal shall be heard by the court until such

bond shall be given and approved as aforesaid and filed

with the clerk of the court.

SEC. 255. All offenses against the laws and ordinances

of the mayor and aldermen of Frederick shall be tried and

determined by the police justice of election district num-

Offenses.

ber two, in Frederick County, and in case of his absence,

shall be

sickness, or other disability, by the mayor, and all arrests for

tried.

breaches of the laws and ordinances of the corporation shall

be made by the constables appointed by the mayor and

aldermen of Frederick and no other constable whatsoever.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-

said, That said police justice shall be paid by the mayor

and, aldermen of Frederick the sum of four hundred dollars

per annum for his services under the provisions of this act,

Pay for

to be paid in equal quarterly instalments, and said police

police jus-
tice

justice shall have jurisdiction to try all causes and to

impose the respective penalties presented by the ordinances

of the mayor and aldermen of Frederick, and which, by

the terms of said ordinances, are to be imposed by the

mayor and aldermen, as well as the penalties hereafter

presented by said mayor and alderman of Frederick by

ordinances passed in according with the provisions of the

charter of Frederick city, and said police justice shall pay

quarterly to the register of Frederick city all fines and costs

collected by him in corporation cases, and upon failure to

do so shall be liable to indictment in the Circuit Court for

Frederick County, and upon conviction, shall be fined the
sum of one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county

jail for a term not exceeding six months, or both in the dis-

Penalty.

cretion of the court ; and said police justice shall produce

his docket when requested by the board of aldermen, and

may be interrogated under oath in regard to the entries

therein.

SEC. 198. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid,

That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage.

In force

Approved March 9th, 1892.