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641. Whenever any Justice of the Peace appointed under the
provisions of this sub-division of this Article other than one of
the Justices selected as aforesaid to sit at a station house as
aforesaid, shall issue a State writ for the arrest of any person,
or shall issue any writ or summons against any person or cor-
poration to recover any fine, penalty, or forfeiture, under any
law of this State, or under any ordinance of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, such writ or summons shall be made
returnable before one of the Justices of the Peace selected by
the Governor to sit at a station house in the City of Baltimore,
and shall not be made returnable before the Justice of the Peace
issuing the same, unless he be one of the Justices of the Peace
selected to sit at a station house as aforesaid.

642. Whenever any person shall be arrested upon any
criminal charge, or for the violation of any law of this State,
or of any ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more, it shall be the duty of the police officer or constable mak-
ing such arrest, or in whose custody the said person so arrested
may be, to take the person so arrested before the Justice of the
Peace sitting at a station house who may have issued the writ
or warrant for such arrest, or before whom such writ or war-
rant of arrest is made returnable; but if such arrest is made with-
out writ or warrant, or if such writ or warrant is made return-
able before another Justice than a Justice of the Peace sitting
at a station house, it shall be the duty of the said police officer
or constable to take the person so arrested to the nearest station
house; and the Justice of the Peace sitting at said station house
shall take jurisdiction in said case.

643. Every Justice of the Peace appointed under the provis-
ions of this sub-division of this Article, shall file with the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas, on the first day of April, July,
October and January, in each and every year, an account veri-
fied by his oath or affirmation, of all fines, forfeitures and pen-
alties imposed by him under the laws of this State, during the
three preceding months; which said account shall show the