EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR,

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Section 59 B. The said police justice shall receive as com-
pensation for his services the sum of three hundred dollars

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per year, or the proportionate part thereof, so long as he
shall continue to act as such police justice in said district,
said salary to be paid by the County Commissioners of
Carroll county in equal quarterly instalments, and shall be
in full compensation for all 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 a
gratuity for issuing any warrants, taking any recognizance,
making any commitment, granting any release, or for the
performance of any duty required by law in criminal cases,
except for issuing peace warrants.
Section 59 e. That if any justice of the peace so selected

Compensation
for service.

as police justice is unable, by reason of sickness, absence,
relationship, or for any other temporary cause whatever to
attend to his duties as such police justice, it shall be the
duty of the State's Attorney for said county to designate and
require another justice of the peace to perform the duties of
said police justice so sick, absent or otherwise unable to
perform the duties of his said office so long as the same
may be necessary, or until the resident judge of the Circuit
Court for Carroll county shall select another to perform said
duties; and the said State's Attorney shall forthwith certify
the selection he may make to the said judge of the Circuit
Court of Carroll county. The justice so required to perform
the duties of police justice shall receive the same compensa-
tion hereby prescribed for the police justice, which shall be
paid to him by the said County Commissioners, who shall
deduct the same from the salary of the police justice for
whom he was serving.
Section 59 D. It shall be lawful for any justice of the

In case of sick-
ness of police
justice
State's Attor-
ney to
appoint sub-
stitute.

peace for said Election District Number Seven, when the
police justice is not accessible, to issue a warrant for the
arrest of any persons violating any of the laws of this
State, or any ordinance of the city of Westminster, but
such warrant shall be made returnable before the police
justice (except in bastardy cases), and not before the justice
issuing the same, the said police justice (except in bastardy
cases) being alone authorized to try criminal cases in said
Election District Number Seven; and when said writ is so
issued and returned the said justice so issuing the same

Justice of the
peace may
issue war-
rants, etc.,
for violation
of laws.