140 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 69
CHAPTER 69.

AN ACT to provide for a Justice of the Peace of Queen Anne's
County at large to be known as a Police Justice and define
the qualifications, duties, powers, authority and jurisdiction
of said Police Justice and other Justices of said Queen
Anne's County, and fixing the compensation of said Police
Justice, and defining the duty of the State's Attorney for
said Queen Anne's County under certain circumstances.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Governor of this State be and he is hereby
authorized, empowered and directed by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate of the State of Maryland, if in ses-
sion and without the consent and approval of the Senate if not
in session, to bi-ennially appoint a Justice of the Peace for
Queen Anne's County, at large, and to designate said Justice
of the Peace, appointed by the provisions of this Act as Police
Justice.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That said Police Justice shall be a
resident of the County of Queen Anne's, in the State of Mary-
land, and who, before he acts as such shall give bond to the
State of Maryland, in the penalty of one thousand dollars, with
a surety or sureties to be approved by the County Commission-
ers of said Queen Anne's County, conditioned that he will well
and faithfully execute the duties and obligations of Justice of
the Peace, and that he will account for and pay over to the
County Commissioners of said county all fines, penalties, for-
feitures and costs imposed by him, which he shall receive for
or on account of criminal offenses tried before him, under the
provisions of the Public General Laws, and the Public Local
Laws, which bond shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the
Circuit Court for said county, and which shall be liable at the
suit of the State for the use of the said County Commissioners
in case of default of any of its conditions.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the Justice of the Peace, ap-
pointed by virtue of this Act shall have an office in the Court
House, at Centreville, or other suitable place in said town of
Centreville, to be provided by the County Commissioners for
said county, and shall attend or be within call at his office at
such times as the business of his office may require his atten-
tion; provided that the said Police Justice may, whenever he