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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sum of twenty-five cents for each of the first three witnesses

summoned and returned, and for each additional witness

the sum of five cents ; and should the sheriff of said county

perform such duties he shall be allowed the same fees as are

herein allowed to constables ; the fees of constables in the

sixth district shall be the same as herein allowed constables

in the other districts but shall be collected, paid to and

accounted for by the justices of the peace as the preceding

sections prescribed ; and no warrant shall be issued by the

justices of the peace to either constable of said sixth district,

or to the sheriff of said county on the oath or affirmation of

another constable or other officer, and no warrant shall be

issued by said j nstices to a constable or to the sheriff on the

oath or affirmation of any police officer of the city of An-

napolis ; and when any warrant is issued by a justice of the

peace on the complaint, oath or affirmation of any constable,

sheriff, deputy sheriff or other officer, and such charge shall

be dismissed or the defendant acquitted, no fees in such

cases shall be allowed by the county commissioners or the

mayor, counselor and aldermen to any officer serving such

warrant or other process. The constable of the sixth dis-

trict of said county for the service of all process and sum-

monses for witnesses made by him in criminal cases, shall

receive from the county commissioners the sum of fifty dol-

Salary of
constables

lars per month payable in cash or by levy equivalent to cash

of 6th
district

on the day of his making report as provided in the preceding

section ; provided, that if the amount of the constable's fees

for services of process by him, as may appear by liis report

and the report of the justices of the peace is less than fifty

dollars, then and in that case such constable shall only

receive the amount of fees appearing by said reports to have

been earned by him.

178 C. The duly elected and bonded police officers of said

Police

city of Annapolis are hereby invested with full power and

authority of county constables without pay other than that

received from said city in all criminal offences occurring

in said city, but they shall not have any jurisdiction in

civil cases.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts

Repeal.

inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby re-

pealed, and that all appointments of justices of the peace

for the sixth district of Anne Arundel County heretofore

made and confirmed for the ensuing two years inconsistent

with this act are hereby declared null and void, and this act

Effective.

shall take effect from the first day of May, eighteen hundred

and ninety-two.

Approved April 7th, 1892.