JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of
this Act.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 197.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
179 of Article Number One of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title "Justices of the
Peace and Constables," and to amend and re-enact said
Section 179 and add additional Sections thereto, to be known
as Sections 179 A and 179B, with the object of providing a
fixed salary for the Justices of the Peace of Election
Districts numbers four, tive, six, fourteen, twenty-two and
twenty-three.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

CHAP. 107.

Maryland, That section 179 of Article 7 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, entitled "Allegany County," sub-title
"Justices of the Peace and Constables," be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments and that two
additional sections to be known as sections 179 A and 179 B be
and the same are hereby enacted to follow said section 179 as
re-enacted in the order named, all three sections to read as
follows :

Repeal
and re-enact.

Section 179. That there shall be appointed by the Governor
one justice of the peace for each of the election districts four,
five, six, fourteen, twenty-two and twenty-three in Allegany
county, and no more during the two years of their respective
terms of office ending in the year 1904 ; each of said justices
shall be entitled to receive from Allegany county the monthly
salary fifty dollars per month, payable monthly, in lieu of all
fees now receivable by justices of the peace under the law in
criminal cases or in cases where the State of Maryland is a
party ; and the said justices of the peace shall make a monthly
report to the Board of County Commissioners on the first
Monday of each month setting forth an itemized list of all
fines and costs imposed by them against offenders and whether
such fines and costs were paid by the offenders or whether the
offenders were committed to jail or elsewhere in default of
such payment, in order the Board of County Commissioners
may know accurately what fines and costs are payable to said
county by the constables in such districts to whom all such
fines and costs shall be paid by the offenders paying the same.

One Justice of
the peace
appointed
for
each election
district.