HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 1131

penalties or forfeitures directed to be paid under Article
19A, title "Conservation of Natural Resources"; nor to
fines, penalties or forfeitures under the provisions of Ar-
ticle 39, title "Fish and Fisheries, " as contained in the An-
notated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland; nor to
fines, penalties or forfeitures as contained in any ordinance
of any incorporated town in Calvert County.

174N. The Police Justice shall prescribe rules and
regulations governing the practice and procedure in his
said Court, and shall prescribe the form of writs, both
civil and criminal, to be used therein. The County Com-
missioners shall prepare proper return forms for the sev-
eral Justices of the Peace of said County other than the
Police Justice, and to be used by them in all cases orig-
inating before them, said forms to be in duplicate, and in
all cases where the alleged offense originated before any
Justice of the Peace other than the Police Justice, the said
Justice of the Peace shall transmit the papers and the
recognizance and the collateral as hereinbefore provided.

1740. It is the intent and purpose of this Act that the
Police Justice herein created shall have exclusive juris-
diction to hear, try and determine, enter judgment and
impose sentence in all cases in which he is given juris-
diction under the provisions of this Act, and to enlarge
his civil jurisdiction to two hundred and fifty dollars
($250), and to limit and confine criminal jurisdiction to
the Police Justice except as in this Act provided, and that
the several Justices of the Peace of Calvert County other
than the Police Justice shall have no criminal jurisdiction
except as herein specifically provided for, but the several
Justices of the Peace of said County shall have
jurisdiction to hear, try and determine any violation
of ordinances in any incorporated town in said
County, except as herein provided as well as
to hear, try and determine violations or ordi-
nances of any town that may be incorporated
subsequent to the passage of this Act. It is further the
intent and purpose of this Act that nothing herein shall
effect or change the number of Justices of the Peace now
provided by law for Calvert County, or prevent the con-
tinuance in office of a Justice of the Peace in the first elec-
tion district of Calvert County with the same duties and
jurisdiction as other Justice of the Peace in the districts
where the Police Magistrates does not sit.