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Session Laws, 1898 Session
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484 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

633. In all criminal prosecutions or proceedings which,
under the provisions of the preceding section, may be heard,
tried and determined before a Justice of the Peace sitting at a
station house in the City of Baltimore, it shall be the duty of
such Justice of the Peace before whom such case is tried, in
the event of the conviction of the accused at the said trial, to
impose upon the said accused so convicted, the fine, or the fine
and punishment prescribed in case of such conviction by the
Act of Assembly of this State, or by the ordinance of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, for the violation of which the
accused was so tried. Any person sentenced to the payment
of any fine, and to the payment of the costs of his prosecution,
who shall not forthwith pay the said fine and the costs of said
prosecution, shall be committed by such Justice of the Peace to
the jail of Baltimore City until such fine and costs are paid, or
until the said person shall be discharged from such jail by due
course of law.

634. When a person charged with any offence referred to
in this sub-division of this Article, or the State's Attorney, shall
pray a jury trial, the Justice of the Peace shall, in addition to
his duties prescribed in section 633, endorse upon said com-
mitment or recognizance the names and residences of the wit-
nesses for the prosecution; and such commitment or recogni-
zance so endorsed shall be returned forthwith to the Clerk of
the said Criminal Court of Baltimore.

635. The Justice of the Peace, so selected to sit at any sta-
tion house, may be changed from time to time by the Governor,
at his discretion, and any other Justice of the Peace may be
selected by the Governor to perform the said duties at said
station house.

636. Each Justice of the Peace selected to sit at a station
house in the City of Baltimore shall receive the sum of one
hundred and seventy-five dollars per month, or a proportion-
able part thereof, so long as he shall continue to act at a station

 

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