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trial shall inform the person charged of his right to a jury
trial, and, should such person waive a jury trial and demand
a trial before such Justice, then it shall be the duty of the said
Justice of the Peace to forthwith notify the State's Attorney
for said county of the name of such person and the character
of the charges against him, and said Justice shall not proceed
to try said case within a less period than seven days from the
date of sending the notifications, unless he should sooner re-
ceive information from said State's Attorney, also waiving a
jury trial therein, in which event he may proceed to try such
case within seven days from said notification; provided, how-
ever, that this section shall not apply to any Justice of the
Peace for the Twelfth Election District, except the station
house Justice for said district, which said Justices other than
the station house Justices shall not exercise any criminal juris-
diction, except as set forth in the next succeeding section of
this Article.

SEC. 212. And be it enacted, That the Justices of the Peace
in Baltimore County shall be entitled to charge for their ser-
vices in criminal cases the following fees: For issuing each
State writ, twenty-five cents; and for issuing 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 commit-
ment, 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 recognizances
for the appearance of any witnesses 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 the Catonsville station house, in the First Election District,
at Gardenville, in the Fourteenth Election District, and at
Towson, as committing magistrate in the Ninth Election Dis-
trict, or at the station house at Mt. Winans and St. Denis,
respectively, in the Thirteenth Election District, shall be
entitled to receive from the County Commissioners more
forty dollars as fees for his services in criminal cases in any
one month, and that no Justice of the Peace other than a