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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 113.

CHAPTER 113.
AN ACT to add an additional Section to Article 22 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washington
County," sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables,"
to be designated as Section 270 A, relating to bonds to be
given before Justices of the Peace in Criminal Cases.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

New section
added.

Maryland, That an additional section, designated as 270 A, be
added to article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Washington County," sub-title "Justices of
the Peace," to follow after section 270, pnd to read as follows :
270 A. It shall be the duty of the justices of the peace of

Bail may be
given.

Washington county in criminal cases when persons are arrested
and brought before them, charged with offences whereof the
said justices have trial jurisdiction, to admit such persons
to bail, if good and sufficient bail is offered, for a trial to be
had before said justice ; and should the offense charged be one
in which the said justices of the peace do not have trial juris-
diction, then in that case said justices of the peace shall hold
said person or persons for a hearing on a day not later than
three days from the day on which said person or persons were
brought before said justice of the peace, and the said justices
of the peace are hereby required to admit to bail any person
or persons so held for a hearing; provided, good and sufficient
bail is offered ; said hearing may be adjourned from time to
time, if the interests of justices so require ; said adjournment
to be not for more than three days at any one time. But no
justice shall admit any person to bail where the offense
charged is punishable by death. The form of the bond in
such cases shall be substantially as follows, and signed by the
party accused and his surety or sureties :

State of Maryland, Washington County, to wit :
We —— and —— acknowledge ourselves to owe and stand

Form of bond

justly indebted to the State of Maryland, in the sum of
dollars, to be made and levied of our goods and chattels and
lands and tenements, upon the condition that —— be and
appear in his proper person at the hearing or trial, as the case
may be, before —— , justice of the peace of the State of
Maryland, in and for Washington county, at his office, in
in Washington county, on the —— day of —— 19 , at
o'clock, M., then and there to answer all such things as shall
be alleged against —— "on behalf of the State of Maryland,
and not to depart without leave ; and in meantime to keep the