ALBERT O. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 131

Chapter 248 of the Acts of 1924, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as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 justices
of the peace shall be entitled to receive twenty-five cents ad-
ditional for each five witnesses, or less than five so sum-
moned; for each 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 taking recognizances in each case for hearing or trial
before a justice of the peace, twenty-five cents; for taking
recognizances of all witnesses in any one case, twenty-five:
cents each; provided that no recognizance for the appearance
of any witness shall be taken unless the justice of the peace-
be satisfied that the same is absolutely necessary to secure the
ends of justice and the attendance of such witnesses; for each
attachment for contempt, twenty-five cents; and that no justice
of the peace other than the justices selected to sit as com-
mitting magistrates at Catonsville, Fullerton, Pikesville,
Towson, Dundalk, Essex, and Halethorpe, 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 the justice of the peace so selected to sit at
Towson shall receive from the County Commissioners the
sum of One Hundred and Twenty-five dollars per month and
ten dollars for his office expenses, which sum of money shall be
paid to him by the Treasurer of Baltimore County on the order
of the County Commissioners, at the end of each month, for his
said services, and that the justice of the peace so selected to sit
at Pikesville in the Third Election District of Baltimore Coun-
ty shall receive from the County Commissioners the sum of One
Hundred and Twenty-five dollars per month, said sum to be
paid in the same manner as the compensation of the committing
magistrate at Towson is paid, and the justice so selected to sit
at the station house at Dundalk shall receive in the same man-
ner Seventy-five dollars per month, and the justice so selected