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house in said City, under the selection of the Governor; which
sum of money shall be paid to him by the City Regis-
ter at the end of each month of his said service, or a pro-
portionable part thereof, at the end of any portion of a month
at which the service of such Justice of the Peace at said
station house may terminate, upon the certificate of the Board
of Police Commissioners of Baltimore City, that such service
has been rendered under the appointment of the Governor as
aforesaid; and no Justice of the Peace selected for a station
house shall be permitted to charge any fee, or receive any
gratuity for granting any release, or for the performance of any
duty required by law.

637. If any Justice of the Peace who has been selected as
aforesaid to sit at any station house in the City of Baltimore is
unable, by reason of sickness or other unavoidable cause, to
attend to his duty at said station house, or fails to attend at said
station house, at any time, when his presence is there required,
it shall be the duty of the Board of Police Commissioners of
Baltimore City to require another Justice of the Peace to per-
form the duties at said station house, of the said Justice of the
Peace so sick or absent; and it shall be the duty of the Justice
of. the Peace so required to perform said duties at said station
house, to perform the same so long as may be necessary, or
until the Governor shall select another Justice to perform said
duties; the Justice of the Peace so required to perform said
duties at said station house, by the said Board of Police Com-
missioners, in place of the Justice selected by the Governor,
shall receive six dollars per day for every day he shall actually
serve at such station house; which pay shall be deducted from
the pay provided to be paid to the Justice selected to sit at such
station house and failing to attend; provided, that said pay of
the said Justice who may sit in the absence of the Justice so
selected to sit at any station house, shall not be deducted from
the pay of the said last-named Justice, if the said Board of
Police Commissioners shall certify that such absence was by
reason of his necessary attendance upon any court or Justice of