262

LAWS OP MARYLAND.

CHAP. 164.

or owners or any of them be a feme covert without power to
contract, in relation to said property or water rights, or shall
be under age or non compos mentis or any other legal dis-
ability, or be absent from Harford county when the said land
or water rights may be wanted, the said Town Commissioners
of Aberdeen may proceed to condemn and acquire the same
in the manner provided for in sections two hundred and
forty-eight, two hundred and fifty-three, both inclusive, of
Article twenty-three of the Code of Public General Laws of
the State of Maryland.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 164.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Sections 60 and 64 of Article
Seventeen (17) of the Code of Public Local Laws for
Prince George's County, sub-title " Bladensburg."

Repeal
and re enact.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That sections 60 and 64 of Article 17 of the Code of Public
.Local Laws for Prince George's county, sub title "Bladens-
burg," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
to read as follows :

Police Justice
appointed.

Section 60. They are authorized and empowered to appoint
annually a police justice within said town, whose jurisdiction
shall be limited to the town and the enforcement of its ordi-
nances. The said justice shall be a conservator of the peace,
and shall have power to impose tines and penalties for breach
of any of said ordinances of said town, not exceeding the
penalty prescribed by said ordinances, and to enforce payment
of the same by commitment to the public jail of said county,
or to such place of confinement as the Town Commissioners
may establish. The said police justice shall have the same
power and conform to the same procedure in trials and com-
mitments within his jurisdiction as justices of the peace of
said county now have or may have in criminal cases, and
shall be entitled to charge the same fees as said county
justices. The bailiff or bailiffs appointed by said Town Com-
missioners shall have power to arrest persons charged with
violating the town ordinances, and to confine them in the
county jail until they are brought before such police justice
for trial or before a justice of the peace for said county ; and
also to imprison or confine any person convicted of a breach
of the peace or of a violation of any of said ordinances and
committed to the said jail by such police or county justice, or