1502 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

Harford County shall have concurrent jurisdiction over said
offenses by indictment of the grand jury.

412. Constables in said county shall be entitled to the fees
prescribed by law for the particular services rendered by them
under the preceding section; and the said justices shall be enti-
tled to charge for their respective services in said criminal
cases the following fees: For issuing each State writ, twenty-
five cents; for summoning all the witnesses on both sides in
any case, fifty cents; for each trial, one dollar; for every com-
mitment, twenty-five cents; for every release, twenty-five cents;
for taking recognizance in each case reported to the Circuit
Court, twenty-five cents each; for each attachment for con-
tempt, twenty-five cents.

413. Constables of Harford County be and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to execute commitments issued by
justices of the peace of Harford County, committing persons
to the House of Correction and other State institutions, and
to convey and deliver the person or persons so committed to
said institutions; and shall receive for said services from the
County Commissioners of said county to be levied annually by
them, the sum of ten dollars and cost of transportation.

414. Whenever any of said constables shall make an arrest
under a State warrant and bring the prisoner before a justice
of the peace of the county, he shall be allowed and receive, in
addition to the seventy-five cents now allowed by law for serv-
ing said warrant, five cents per mile in excess of five miles, for
every mile he may have to travel in the performance of said
service, and the actual necessary traveling expenses of each
prisoner, and whenever he shall attend a regular hearing or
trial of said prisoner before the justice of the peace before
whom the prisoner is brought on said warrant, he shall be
allowed and receive for such attendance the sum of fifty cents,
the same to be paid by the County Commissioners of said
county, to be annually levied by them.

415. The aforesaid fees of said constables and justices for
said counties shall be taxed against and paid by the party
against whom judgment shall be rendered, unless he be dis-
charged 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 the county wherein said judgment was
rendered; and all fines and penalties received by any justice
shall be accounted for and wholly paid, without abatement or
deduction therefrom by such justice, to the county commis-