528 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 297

DISQUALIFICATION.

Section 179-S. Said Justices during their term of office
shall hold no other office of profit created by the Laws of the
United States or the State of Maryland; they shall not sit in
any cause or render judgment in any cause where the plain-
tiff or defendant is a corporation in which they are interested;
nor shall they sit or render judgment in any cause where they
are interested parties or where any of the parties to the cause
may be connected by affinity or consanguinity within such
prohibited degrees as are now or may hereafter be prescribed
by law, or where they have given advice to any parties to the
cause, or have been counsel in the case; they shall not be put
to trial or held liable criminally or civilly for error of judg-
ment or honest mistake in the performance of their duties;
but they may be removed from office in the manner prescribed

by the Constitution or Laws of this State.

FINES IN POLICE COURT.

Section 179-T. All fines imposed by said Justices while
sitting as City Police Magistrates shall be remitted to the
Mayor and City Council of Cumberland, Maryland, in the
fame manner as fines are now remitted in Police Court; said
Justices may in their discretion transfer the trial of police
cases from the City Hall to the Peoples Court Rooms; when
either of said Justices are sitting as City Police Magistrate
they shall be deemed to be and they are hereby declared to be
the judicial authority, subject to the right of appeal within
ten days from entry of judgment having power to pass upon
land render judgment in respect to the violation of the Charter
and Ordinances; rules and regulations of the Mayor and City
Council of Cumberland, Maryland, and as such they shall have
and acquire all the powers which the City Police Magistrate
of Cumberland now has; they shall be free from the direction

or interference or supervision of the Mayor and City Council
of Cumberland, Maryland, its Officers, Department Heads or
Employees; and upon the refusal of any member of the Police
Department of the City of Cumberland to carry out any order
of said Justices when sitting as City Magistrate, said Justice
shall prefer charges against said member of said Police De-
partment with the proper authority.

CLERKS AND BAILIFF.

Section 179-U. There shall be appointed by the said Justices
for the term of two years and each two years thereafter, a