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900 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 15,
the damages and coats in civil, and the fines and costs in
crimibal cases, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dol-
lars, and shall have power to commit to the county Jail in
criminal cases, for a period of not more than sixty days, nor
less than ten days any person or persons, unless the fine or
fines and costs imposed be paid or secured to be paid: Provi-
ded, however. That in all cases hereafter tried under this Act
before a Justice of the Peace for said county, either party
shall be allowed an appeal to the Criminal Court for St.
Mary's and Baltimore counties, and such appeal shall be tried
"de novo," and shall he taken in such manner as is now pro-
vided for by law in other cases of appeals from judgments of
Justices of the Peace.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That all fines and costs im-
posed under the preceding Section shall be collected by the
Constable or officer serving the process, and when collected,
shall be paid into the County Treasury less the costs, and ten
per centum of the fines within thirty days from the date of
the collection thereof, and all judgments iu cases where
security is taken shall be collected within ninety days from
the rendition of the same, or the affirmation if appealed upon,
and the bond of the Constable shall be liable for all such
fines and costs so collected.
Section 3. And be it enacted, That no Justice of the Peace
shall be required to issue warrants or process under this Act,
or any peace warrant, and no constable shall be required to
serve such process, unless the fees and costs for issuing,
serving and trying the same, be first paid, or tendered to be
paid by the party applying lor such process and service.
Section 4. And be it enacted. That no Justice of the Peace
issuing such process, and no constable serving such process
shall have any claim for fees or costs against the county, for
issuing and serving the same.
Section 5. And be it enacted, That in all cases of peace
warrants, the Justice of the Peace issuing the same, shall
investigate and try the same upon such testimony as he may
have before him, and if in his judgment the charges upon
which such warrant has been issued be not sustained and
sufficient to hold the party charged to bail as now req red
by law, he shall dismiss the case.
Section 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
The question being upon the adoption of the amendments,
They were adopted.
The question recurring upon the passage of the bill as
attended,
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