2078 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 861

the safekeeping thereof and said funds shall be kept as a
separate account and placed in such bank or banks as the
District Heights Commission may designate, and no part
thereof shall ever be used for any other purpose than to liqui-
date the notes or certificates of indebtedness and pay the
interest thereon issued for the costs and the necessary ex-
penses in the construction of sidewalks, curbs, gutters and
roadbed and street improvements, including the necessary ex-
penses incident thereto. The certificates when paid shall
be cancelled and properly kept and filed among the papers
of said town. The record shown for certificates thus can-
celled shall be entered upon a book kept for the purpose
aforesaid. If upon the retirement and liquidation of all
notes and certificates of indebtedness, as provided for in this
section, there shall be a surplus in said special fund, the
Treasurer of said town may transfer said surplus in said
special fund to the general account of said town and said
surplus may thereafter be applied to the payment of the
usual and ordinary governmental expenses of said town.

475 (D). The District Heights Commission is hereby auth-
orized and empowered to contribute a sum of money up to
one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per year to the District
Heights Volunteer Fire Department, and is hereby author-
ized and empowered to levy and collect annually an addi-
tional assessment to be known as fire tax not to exceed one
dollar ($1.00) from each owner of improved real estate within
the Town of District Heights for each piece or parcel of im-
proved property owned for the purpose of accumulating the
fund to be contributed annually to said Fire Department.

477 (D). Any civil or criminal action or proceeding insti-
tuted before a Justice of the Peace, other than a Trial Magis-
trate, shall be promptly removed by said Justice, by a trans-
fer of the original papers, with a copy of the docket entries,
to the nearest Trial Magistrate of Prince George's County for
trial and determination or other action within his jurisdic-
tion; provided that before removal of a criminal case, the
justice of the peace to whom a writ for the arrest of any per-
son is returnable may take recognizance, as now or hereafter
authorized by law, for the appearance of said person before
the Trial Magistrate to whom said case is to be removed; and
provided that any prosecution for the violation of an ordi-
nance of the Town of District Heights shall be originally
instituted only before a Trial Magistrate, or other Justice
of the Peace regularly exercising the jurisdiction of that
office.