1314 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 694

CHAPTER 694.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 782 of the Acts of 1912, entitled
"An Act to repeal Chapter 294 of the Acts of 1910," en
titled 'An Act to provide for the appointment of a Jus-
tice of the Peace for Montgomery County, at large, and
define the duties, powers, authority and jurisdiction of
said Justice and other Justices of said Montgomery
County, Maryland'," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 782, of the Acts of 1912, entitled "An
Act to repeal Chapter 294, of the Acts of 1910, entitled 'An
Act to provide for the appointment of a Justice of the Peace
for Montgomery County, at large, and define the duties,
powers and authority and jurisdiction of said Justice and
other Justices of said Montgomery County'," be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 1a. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized, em-
powered and directed by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate of the State of Maryland, if in session and with-
out the consent and approval of the Senate if not in session,
to biennially appoint a Justice of the Peace for Montgomery
County, at large, and to designate said Justice of the Peace,
appointed by the provisions of this Act as Public Police
Justice.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That said Police Justice shall be
a resident of the County of Montgomery in the State of Mary-
land, and who, before he acts as such shall give bond to the
State of Maryland, in the penalty of one thousand-dollars,
with a surety or sureties to be approved by the County Com-
missioners, of said Montgomery County, conditioned that he
will well and faithfully execute the duties and obligations of
Justice of the Peace, and that he will account for and pay
over to the County Commissioners of said county all fines,
penalties, forfeitures and costs imposed by him, which he shall
receive for or on account of criminal offenses tried before him,
under the provisions of the Public General Laws, and the
Public Local Laws, which bond shall be recorded in the Clerk's
office of the Circuit Court for said county, and which shall