ACT. 1. ] ALLEGANY COUNTY. 331

SEC- 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act (so far as the
same are so inconsistent) are hereby repealed, and this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 490.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 179
of article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Allegany
County, " sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables, "
as the same was amended by Act of 1902, chapter 197, and by
Act of 1904, chapter 249, and by Act of 1906, chapter 27,
with the object of providing for the appointment of justices
of the peace for Allegany county, and for fixing the salaries
of the justices of the peace for the districts comprising the
city of Cumberland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 179 of article 1 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Allegany County, " sub-title "Justices of the Peace
and Constables, " as the same was enacted by chapter 197 of the
Acts of 1902, and chapter 249 of the Acts of 1904, and chapter
27 of the Acts of 1906, be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

179. There shall be appointed by the Governor, at the session
of the Legislature of 1908, and biennially thereafter, according
to law, two justices of the peace for each election district in
Allegany county, except that for election districts Nos. 4, 5,
6, 14, 22 and 23 in said county there shall be appointed six
magistrates at large, and none others, each of which justices
of the peace in said districts Nos. 4, 5, 6, 14, 22 and 23 shall be
entitled to receive from Allegany county the monthly salary
of sixty-five dollars per month, payable monthly, in lieu of ail
fees now receivable by justices of the peace under the law in
criminal cases, or in cases where the State of Maryland is a
party; and the said justices of the peace shall make a monthly
report to the Board of County Commissioners on the first
Monday in each month, setting forth an itemized list of all
fines and costs imposed by them against offenders, or whether
the offenders were committed to jail or elsewhere in default
of such payment, in order that the Board of County Commis-
sioners may know accurately what fines and costs are payable
to said county by the constable in such district, to whom all
fines and costs shall be paid by the offenders paying the same;
provided, that no justice of the peace appointed under this Act