136 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 74

to be paid by the County Commissioners for Talbot County
in equal quarterly installments and shall be paid in full com-
pensation for services required of him under this Act; and
no Justice of the Peace so selected for Police Justice shall
be permitted to charge any fee or receive any gratuity for
making any commitment, granting any release or for the
performance of any duty required by law in criminal cases
or when acting as coroner; but the said County Commis-
sioners shall in no case pay the aforesaid salary until the
said Police Justice shall at first file with the County Com-
missioners of Talbot County his quarterly report, verified
by oath or affirmation, accounting for all fines, forfeitures
and penalties imposed by him under the laws of this State
or any ordinances of the Town of Oxford, which said re-
port shall show the names of the parties, the fines and pen-
alties imposed, together with the amount of costs, and to
whom said costs were due, and the said Police Justice shall
at the time of filing said report and as a part of said re-
port pay over to the said County Commissioners the amount
of all fines, penalties, forfeitures so received by him which
shall be applied by the County Commissioners to the pay-
ment of all fees in criminal cases chargeable against said
County Commissioners; provided that all fines or penalties
imposed for violation of any ordinances of the Town of
Oxford shall be paid over to the Commissioners of said
town.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported
by three-fifths of all of the members elected to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1933.

CHAPTER 74.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 326 and 327 of Article 21 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edi-
tion), title "Talbot County, " sub-title "Orphans' Court, "
and to enact in lieu thereof a new section to be known
as Section 326, relating to the compensation of the
Judges of the Orphans' Court of Talbot County.