FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 281.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section
six hundred and fifteen of Article four of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub title "Justices
of the Peace and Constables," as re enacted by the Act of
eighteen hundred and ninety, Chapter three hundred and
sixty-nine.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section six hundred and fifteen of article
four of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City of Balti-
more," sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables," as
re-enacted by the act of eighteen hundred and ninety,
chapter three hundred and sixty-nine, be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

Repeal.

615. It shall be the duty of each justice of the peace so
selected to sit at any station house in the city of Baltimore, to
hear all charges made against any person because of the alleged
commission by such person of any criminal offence; it shall be
the duty of said justices to examine carefully into every such
charge, to the end that while justice shall be done, no person
shall be subjected to costs or imprisonment without sufficient
cause; each of the said justices of the peace shall have power
to hear, try and determine the case of every person who may
be arrested and brought before him in the said city of Balti-
more, charged with being a tramp, who is or may be punish-
able as such under sections two hundred and seventy-five and
two hundred and seventy-six of article twenty seven of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Crimes and Punish-
ments ;" and to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons
arrested and brought before him charged with any offence
specified in sections sixty-seven and sixty-eight of the same
article or in sections eight hundred and ninety-four to eight
hundred and ninety-seven of this article, sub-title "Vagrant
Children ;" and to hear, try and determine the cases of all per-
sons brought before him charged with assault or with assault
and battery; and to hear, try and determine all charges of
carrying concealed weapons, and all prosecutions or criminal
proceedings for an act done or omitted to be done in the city
of Baltimore, the doing of which act or the omission to do
which act, which is or may be punishable under any act of
Assembly of this State or under any ordinance of the Mayor

Duties of Jus -
tices of the
peace.