ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 95

enacted with amendments by Chapter 123 of the Acts of 1920,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

Section 324. That the justices of the peace in Baltimore
County shall be entitled to charge for their services 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 jus-
tice of the peace, twenty-five cents; for taking recognizance of
all witnesses in any one case, twenty-five cents each; provided
that no recognizance for the appearance of any witnesses shall
be taken unless the justice of the peace be satisfied that the
same is absolutely necessary to secure the. ends of jus-
tice and the attendance of such witnesses; for each at-
tachment for contempt, twenty-five cents; provided that
no justice of the peace. appointed to sit at the station
house at St. Dennis, in the Thirteenth Election Dis-
trict, shall be entitled to receive from the County Com-
missioners more than forty dollars as fees for his services in
criminal cases in any one month, and that no justice of the
peace other than the justices selected to sit at the station house
at Catonsville, the justices selected to sit at some place in the
Fourteenth Election District where designated by the County
Commissioners and the justice selected to sit at the station
house at St. Dennis, and the justices selected to sit at Pikes-
ville and at Towson and in the Twelfth Election District
where designated by the County Commissioners and in the
Fifteenth Election District where designated by the County
Commissioners, shall be entitled to receive from said County
Commissioners more than ten dollars as fees for his services
in criminal cases in any one month. And that the justice of
the peace so selected to sit at Towson shall receive from the
County Commissioners the sum of seventy-five dollars per
month and ten dollars for his office expenses, which sum of