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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 Com-
missioners allowing such Justice to act for him. The said
Justice of the Peace so selected to sit at the station house at
Canton, in Twelfth Election District, shall transact only crim-
inal business at such station house, and no civil business what-
ever, 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
provision he shall be liable to indictment by the Grand Jury
of Baltimore County, and, on conviction, shall be fined one
hundred dollars and shall be disqualified from holding his
office.

Section 212. And be it enacted, That the Justice of the
Peace in Baltimore County shall be entitled to charge for their
advices 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 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 recognizance of all witnesses in
any one case, twenty-five cents each; provided, that no recog-
nizance for the appearance of any witnesses shall be taken un-
less the Justice of the Peace be satisfied that the same is abso-
lutely necessary to secure the ends of justice and the attend-
ance of such witnesses; for each attachment for contempt,
twenty-five cents, provided that no Justice of the Peace ap-
pointed 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 District, 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 than forty dollars as fees for his services in criminal
cases in any one month, and that no Justice of the Peace other