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LAWS OF MARYLAND,
sureties to be approved by the County Commissioners, con-

Bond.

ditional that he will well and faithfully execute the duties
and obligations of justice of the peace, and that he will
account for and pay over to the County Commissioners, all
tines, penalties, forfeitures and costs imposed by him and which
he shall receive, for or on account of criminal offences tried
before him under the provisions of the Code of Public Gen-
eral and Public Local Laws, which bond shall be recorded in
the clerk's office of the Circuit Court, and shall be liable at the
suit of the State for the use of the County Commissioners in
case of default in any of its conditions.

Office.

171 D. The police justice of the fifth district shall have an
office in the town of Brooklyn and also an office in South
Baltimore in said district, and he shall attend at each of his
offices every day of the week except Sundays, for at least two
hours at each place, of which hours of attendance at each of
his offices the said justice shall give notice by proper advertise-
ment.

Powers.

172 A. The said police justice of the fifth district shall have
the same jurisdiction in civil actions as other justices of the
peace in said county, and shall have exclusive jurisdiction of
a justice of the peace in the hearing of all charges and trial
of all cases of criminal offences, or for the recovery of any
fine, penalty or forfeiture under the laws of this State, within
the limits of the first precinct of the fifth district, and the said
police justice for the said first precinct of the said fifth dis-
trict, shall have cognizance of all criminal offences committed
in the said precinct, and of all others which may be brought
before him; and in the event of a warrant being sworn out
before any other justice of the peace for any offence committed
in said first precinct of said district, it shall be the duty of
the justice of the peace before whom such warrant is sworn
out, to make the same returnable before the said police justice
for hearing and trial.

To try all
criminal
cases.

172 B. Whenever any person shall be arrested in said fifth
district upon any criminal charge or for violation of any law
of this State, whether such arrest is made without a writ or is
made under a warrant issued by any justice of the peace of
said district, it shall be the duty of such officer making such
arrest, or in whose custody the person so arrested may be, to
take the person so arrested before the said police justice for
hearing or trial.