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of their criminal jurisdiction, and they shall also serve and
execute any and all writs, warrants, process or subpoenas is-
sued by any justice of the peace in the exercise of his civil
jurisdiction where such service may be made within the terri-
tory regularly patrolled by such police officer, said police
officers to receive no additional compensation for such serv-
ices; in all cases where such writs, warrants, subpoenas or
other process is served by such police officers in civil cases the
magistrate shall collect as part of the costs in aid case for
the use of the county the fees allowed by law to constables
for such service and shall account to any pay over such fees
at the same time and in the same manner as he is required to
account for any pay over the other fees collected by him for
the use of the county.

324. That the justices of the peace in Baltimore Comity
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 addi-
tional for each 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 tak-
ing recognizance 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; pro-
vided that no recognizance for the appearance of any wit-
nesses shall be taken unless the justice of the peace be satis-
fied that the same is absolutely necessary to secure the ends of
justice and the attendance of such witnesses; for each attach-
ment for contempt, twenty-five cents; provided, that no jus-
tice of the peace appointed to sit at the Catonsville station
house (in the First Election District), in the Fourteenth Elec-
tion District, or at the station house at St. Denis, in the Thir-
teenth 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 jus-
tice of the peace other than the justices selected to sit at the