1036 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the Acts of the General Assembly passed by its January
session, nineteen hundred and two) of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washington County," sub-
title "Hagerstown."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section one hundred and seventy-eight (as re-enacted
by chapter 138 of the Acts of the General Assembly passed at
its January session, nineteen hundred and two) of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washington County,"
sub-title "Hagerstown," be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

178. For the enforcement of the town ordinances the justices
of the peace for districts three, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-
two, twenty-four and twenty-five, constituting Hagerstown
and vicinity, shall be and they are hereby constituted the
police justices of Hagerstown, each of said justices shall be
furnished with copies of the ordinances of the town, and each
shall keep a separate docket for corporation cases, and therein
record and make regular entries of the proceedings, in all such
cases, setting forth fine or imprisonment imposed and the
amount of costs, and he shall submit said docket to the inspec-
tion of any person who may request to see the same and upon
demand of any person interested shall deliver a copy of any
judgment rendered by him. It shall be the duty of each of said
justices to make out a summarized statement of all corporation
cases tried before him, with the fines and costs therein col-
lected, which statement shall be submitted monthly to the Coun-
cil after being sworn to before the Mayor. Upon the request
of the Council, the said justices shall produce their dockets and
may be placed under oath and interrogated as to the entries
therein. They shall pay over to the tax collector quarterly all
fines collected by them. Each of the justices of the peace
appointed for the districts constituting Hagerstown and vicin-
ity shall receive the sum of thirty-one dollars and twenty-five
cents per month, payable in cash at the end of each and every
month, and all stationery supplies and office equipment used
by said justices in the town business shall be furnished them
by the Mayor and Council.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

This bill became a law on February 20, 1908, by reason of
the expiration of the six days provided for in section 16 of
article 2 of the Constitution.