EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 677

for and pay over to the County Commissioners all fines, pen-
alties, forfeitures and costs imposed by him and which he shall
receive for or on account of criminal offense tried before him
under the provisions of the Public General Laws, Public Local
Laws and the ordinances of the Town of Elkton, which bond
shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court,
and shall be liable at the suit of the State for the use of the
County Commissioners of Cecil County in case of default in
any of its provisions.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said police
justice shall have an office in the town of Elkton in said Dis-
trict, where he shall attend from time to time as the business
of his office may require.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That said police justice
shall have the same jurisdiction in criminal cases as justices
of the peace now possess and which may hereafter be conferred
upon them, by and under the laws of the State; and shall also
have civil jurisdiction as other Magistrates in said County.
The said police justice shall have exclusive jurisdiction of and
shall be required to try and determine all violations of the
criminal laws, and all violations of the ordinances of the town
of Elkton, subject, however, to the same right of election to be
tried by a jury, notice of which must be clearly given by said
police justice to the party before trial, and subject to the same
right of appeal as now exists under the law; provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this act shall preclude the said police
justice from trying criminal cases which arise in any other
District of said County if the same shall be properly brought
before him; provided, however, nothing herein shall confer
any right of removal of any case from said police justice to
any other justice of the peace of Cecil County.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said police justice
shall at the first regular monthly meeting of the County Com-
missioners held in each month make a report in writing veri-
fied under oath, made before the clerk of said commissioners
or before one of the commissioners, of all cases for violation
of any of the Public General Laws and Public Local Laws
heard or tried before him during the preceding month, and
also a like report of all cases for violation of any ordinances
of the town of Elkton, heard or tried before him during the
preceding month, which said reports shall each state, in each
and every case, the name of the defendant, the offense charged,
the name of the person upon whose complaint the warrant was