PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 675

tion 117 of said Local Laws, to select from said Justices so ap-
pointed one from the Easton District who shall be known as
"Police Justice." The said Police Justice shall have the same
jurisdiction in criminal cases as Justices of the Peace of Talbot
County now possess, and which may hereafter be conferred upon
them by and under the laws of this State, but shall have no
civil jurisdiction. The said Police Justice so selected shall be
required to hear, try and determine all violations of the Crim-
inal Laws which may arise in said Easton District, subject, how-
ever, to the same right of election to be tried by jury as now
exists under the law, notice of which right must be given by the
Police Justice to the accused before beginning trial. Provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall preclude said
Police Justice from hearing, trying and determining criminal
cases which may arise in any other district of said County,
when the oath, information or State's warrant, under and by
which the accused is apprehended shall have been sworn out
before, and issued by him, or when the accused is brought be-
fore him by virtue of a State's warrant issued by any other
Justice of the Peace of Talbot County, and made returnable be-
fore said Police Justice, and jurisdiction to hear, try and deter-
mine all such cases is hereby expressly conferred upon said
Police Justice. And the said Police Justice shall be required to
hold all coroner's inquests and inspections that may be neces-
sary to be held in said Easton District should there be no
coroner appointed for said district.

SEC. 117-B. That the said Police Justice shall receive as com-
pensation for his services a salary of Seventy-five Dollars per
month or proportionate part thereof, as long as he shall con-
tinue to be such Police Justice in said district, which salary
shall be paid to him by the County Commissioners of Talbot
County on the first Mondays in July, October, January and
April of each year as full compensation for the services re-
quired of him under this Act. And said Police Justice shall
not be permitted to charge any fee or receive any gratuity for
the performance of any duty required by law in criminal cases.

SEC. 117-C. That if said Police Justice is unable by reason
of sickness, absence, relationship or for any temporary cause
whatever to attend to the duties of his office, it shall be the duty
of the State's Attorney for said County to designate some other
Justice of the Peace to perform the duties of Police Justice as
long as the disability continues, or until the Governor shall se-
lect another to perform said duties, and the State's Attorney