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said district, and shall keep his office open every day (Sunday
excepted) at such hours and times as his duties may require or
as he may be required to do by the County Commissioners or
State's Attorney for Baltimore county; and each of said jus-
tices so selected from the Thirteenth Election District to sit at
the station house at Mount Winans and St. Denis, respectively,
in said district, shall keep his office at the station house for
which he was appointed and shall attend said station house
every day (Sunday excepted) at such hours and times as his
duties may require, or as he may be required to do by the
County Commissioners or by the State's Attorney for Balti-
more county; when any such justice appointed to sit at Tow-
son or any of the station houses aforesaid shall designate any
other justice of the peace to act for him in his absence, it shall
first be necessary for him to obtain the consent of the County
Commissioners allowing such justice to act for him. The said
justice of the peace so selected to sit at the station house at
Canton, in the Twelfth Election District, shall transact only
criminal business at such station house and no civil business
whatsoever, except such affidavits and acknowledgments in civil
matters as he may from time to time be required to take for
the convenience of the public; and for any violation of this pro-
vision he shall be liable to indictment by the grand jury of
said county, and on conviction shall be fined one hundred dol-
lars and shall be disqualified from holding his office.

142G. Justices of the peace in Baltimore county shall be en-
titled to charge for their services in criminal cases the follow-
ing fees: for issuing each State writ, twenty-five cents; for each
summons for witnesses including all witnesses ordered 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 recognizances 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 recogni-
zances 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 contempt, twenty-five
cents; provided that no justice of the peace appointed to sit at