ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR:. 419

CHAPTER 186.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 636
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, (Revised Edition of 1915), title "City of Baltimore",
sub-title '' Justices of the Peace and Constables'', increasing
the compensation of the Police Magistrates of Baltimore
City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 636 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (Revised Edition of 1915), title "City of
Baltimore", sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables",
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments
to read as follows:

636. Each Justice of the Peace selected to sit at a station-
house in the City of Baltimore shall receive the sum of twenty-
five hundred dollars ($2, 500. 00) per annum, to be paid monthly,
or a proportionable part thereof, so long as he shall continue
to act at a station-house in said city, under the selection of
the Governor; which sum of money shall be paid to him by
the City Register at the end of each month of his said service,
or a proportionable part thereof, at the end of any portion of
a month at which the service of such Justice of the Peace at
said station-house may terminate, upon the certificate of the
Police Commissioner of Baltimore City, that such service has
been rendered under the appointment of the Governor as afore-
said; and no Justice of the Peace selected for a station-house
shall be permitted to charge any fee, or receive any gratuity
for granting any release, or for the performance of any duty
required by law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1922.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 187.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 625
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Locals Laws of Mary-
land, (Revised Edition of 1915), title "City of Baltimore, "
sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables, " increas-
ing the compensation of the Justices of the People's Court.