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discharged therefrom by due course of law; if such party
against whom judgment is rendered is unable to pay the same,
such fees shall be paid by said County Commissioners, subject
to the limitation set forth in sections 142F and 142G.

214. Every justice of the peace appointed under this sub-
division of this article shall file with the County Commission-
ers of Baltimore county on the first Wednesday of each and
every month an account, verified by his oath or affirmation,
of all fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by him under the
laws of the State and received during the preceding month;
which said account shall show the names of the respective
defendants, the Acts of Assembly, provisions of law, or charges
under which said fines, forfeitures and penalties were respect-
ively imposed, and the amounts paid in each case by the said
respective defendants; and the said justices of the peace, at the
time of filing said account, the station house justice selected to
sit at the Canton station house excepted, shall pay over to the
County Commissioners the amount of said fines, penalties and
forfeitures so received for the use of the county; and the jus-
tice of the peace selected to sit at the station house at Canton,
in the twelfth election district, as aforesaid, in addition to
filing a monthly account and report as above, shall make a
daily report of and pay over to the marshal of police all fines,
forfeitures and penalties collected as aforesaid during the
preceding day, and in addition thereto shall account for and pay
over to said marshal of police all fees taxed as costs and paid
by the parties against whom judgment was rendered, as pro-
vided for in section 142H; the said marshal of police to make
weekly returns of and to pay over all such fines, penalties, for
feitures and fees collected by him, as aforesaid, to the County
Commissioners on Tuesday of each and every week; and upon
the failure of said justice of the peace selected to sit at the
station house at Canton, or of said marshal of police, respect-
ively, to account for and pay over all fines, forfeitures, penal-
ties and costs, as aforesaid, and at the times and in the manner
specified, he shall be liable to indictment by the grand jury of
Baltimore county, and upon conviction shall be fined not less
than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and
shall be disqualified from holding his office.

215. If any justice of the peace shall not have imposed or
received any such fines, forfeitures or penalties, as aforesaid,
during the month preceding the date fixed for the making of
said returns, he shall file an affidavit or affirmation to that
effect at the time prescribed for filing said account.

216. The County Commissioners of Baltimore county are
authorized and empowered to require at any time any justice