WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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provided for by this act, to select from the justices

of the peace so appointed a justice of the peace to

Justices to

sit at each station-house in the city of Baltimore;

sit at station-

each justice so selected shall keep his office at the

houses.

station-house for which he was appointed, and shall

attend at such station-house from six o'clock A. M.

to eight o'clock A. M. on every day in the week

except Sunday, and from ten o'clock A. M. until

twelve o'clock M., on every day in the week, except

Sunday; and from two o'clock P. M. until six

o'clock P. M. on every day in the week except

Sunday; and on every Sunday in each year shall

attend at the station-house for which he was ap-

pointed from six o'clock A. M. to seven o'clock A.

M., and from five o'clock P. M. to six o'clock P. M ;

Time of sitting

and at each of said respective sittings hereinbefore

provided for, shall perform all the duties which he

is required by law to perform. Each of said justices

of the peace so selected as aforesaid to sit at a station-

house in the city of Baltimore shall also attend at

his said station-house at such other hours and times

as he may be required so to do by the Board of Police

Commissioners for the city of Baltimore, or by the

State's attorney for Baltimore city. The said res-

pective justices of the peace so selected to sit at any

station-house in the city of Baltimore shall transact

no other business at any such station-house except

the business required by this act to be by them

respectively performed at such station-house.

SEC. 626 A. It shall be the duty of each justice

of the peace, so selected to sit at any station house

in the city of Baltimore, to hoar all charges made

against any person, because of the alleged commis-

Hear charges.

sion by such person of any criminal offence; it shall

be the duty of each of said justices to examine care-

fully into every such charge, to the end that, while

justice shall be done, no person shall be subjected

to costs, or imprisonment, without sufficient cause;

each of said justices of the peace shall have power

to hear, try and determine the case of every person

Try and de-

who may be arrested and brought before him in

termine.

the said city of Baltimore, charged with being a

" Tramp," who is, or may be, punishable as such

under article thirty of the Code of Public General

Laws of this State, title " Crimes and Punishments,"

sub-title " Tramps," as the same was amended by