442 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ing fees: For issuing each State writ, twenty-five cents; for

each summons for witnesses, including all the witnesses or-
dered by the same party or side at one time, twenty-five cents;
provided, that if more than five witnesses be ordered by the
same party or side at one time, then the justice of the peace
shall be entitled to receive twenty-five cents additional for each
additional five witnesses, or less than five so summoned; for
every oath or affidavit, ten cents; for each hearing or trial, one
dollar; for every commitment, twenty-five cents; for every
release, twenty-five cents; for taking recognizances in each case
reported to the circuit court, twenty-five cents; for taking re-
cognizances in each case for hearing or trial before a justice of
the peace, twenty-five cents; for taking recognizances of all
witnesses in any one case, twenty-five cents each; provided, that
no recognizance for the appearance of any witness shall be
taken unless the justice of the peace be satisfied that the same
is absolutely necessary to secure the ends of justice and the
attendance of such witnesses; for each attachment for con-
tempt, twenty-five cents; provided, that no justices of the peace
appointed to sit at the station houses at Mt. Winans and St.
Denis, respectively, in the thirteenth election district, shall be
entitled to receive from the County Commissioners more than
forty dollars as fees for his services in criminal cases in any one
month, and that no justice of the peace, other than a station
house justice, shall be entitled to receive from said County Com-
missioners more than ten dollars as fees for his services in
criminal cases in any one month; and that the justice of the
peace selected to sit at the station house in Canton, in the
twelfth election district, shall receive from the County Commis-
sioners the sum of eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents
per month, or a proportionate part thereof, so long as he shall

continue to act at said station house, under the selection of the
Governor, as hereinbefore set forth; which sum of money shall
be paid to him by the treasurer of Baltimore county on the
order of the County Commissioners at the end of each month of
his said service, or a proportionate 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, as hereinbefore
provided; and no justice of the peace selected for said station
house shall be permitted to charge any fee except for the use of
the county, as hereinafter provided, or receive any gratuity for
granting any release, or for the performance of any duty re-
quired by law.

213. The aforesaid fees of said constables and justices for
said county shall be taxed against and paid by the party
against whom judgment shall be rendered, unless he or she be