482 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

shall perform all the duties which he is required by law to per-
form; the attendance at any station house of the additional Jus-
tice of the Peace shall be regulated and controlled by the Board
of Police Commissioners for the City of Baltimore or by the
State's Attorney for Baltimore City; the said respective Jus-
tices of the Peace, as selected, to sit at any station house in the
City of Baltimore, shall transact no other business at such sta-
tion house, except the business required of them by the seven
preceding sections to be by them, respectively, performed at
each station house.

631. Where there is an arrest by an officer of the Police
Department in the City of Baltimore of any person for violation
of an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or
a statute of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland,
punishable by fine and not by imprisonment, during the hours
when the Police Magistrates are not at their respective station
houses, the police captain, lieutenant or other officer on duty
and in charge of such station is hereby authorized and em-
powered to release for the next hearing before the Police
Magistrate any person so arrested upon a deposit of an amount
equal to the fine or costs or penalty imposed if found guilty, as
surety for such appearance, and after the hearing the deposit
is to be returned to the depositor if the complaint is dismissed,
if otherwise it is to be appropriated as designated by law.

632. 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-