ART. 11.] FREDERICK COUNTY. 787

erick," as the same was repealed and re-enacted by chapter 31 'of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January session in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be
and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments.

SEC. 223. No ordinance of said city, except as specially pro-
vided in the charter of said city, shall impose a fine of more
than one hundred dollars for any one offense, or authorize a
commitment to the jail of Frederick county for more than
ninety days at one time.

SEC. 255. All offenses against the laws and ordinances of the
Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick shall be tried and deter-
mined by one of the justices of the peace of Election District
Number Two, of Frederick county, and all arrests for breaches
of the laws and ordinances of the corporation shall be made by
the constables appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen of Fred-
erick, and by no other constables whatsoever, and for com-
pensation for services rendered under this sub-title of this
article each of said justices of the peace shall receive in equal
quarterly instalments from the Mayor and Aldermen of Fred-
erick the sum of three hundred dollars annually, and each of
said justices shall have jurisdiction to try all causes and to im-
pose the respective penalties therefor prescribed by the ordi-
nances of the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick, and which by
the terms of said ordinances are to be imposed by the Mayor
and Aldermen, as well as the penalties hereafter prescribed by
said Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick, by ordinance passed in
accordance with the provisions of the charter of Frederick city;
and said justices of the peace shall pay quarterly to the Regis-
ter of Frederick city all fines and costs collected by them in cor-
poration cases, and any one of them upon failure to do so shall
be liable to indictment in the Circuit Court for Frederick
county, and upon conviction shall be fined the sum of one hun-
dred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not
less than two months and not more than six months, or both, in
the discretion of the court; and each of said justices shall pro-
duce his docket when requested to do so by the Board of Alder-
men, and may be interrogated under oath in regard to the en-
tries therein.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect on
the first Monday in May, in the year nineteen hundred and
eight, and that all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed.

Approved April 6, 1908.