ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  521

1. The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered, upon
the recommendation of the Mayor and Council of the town of
Takoma Park, to appoint a police justice for said town, sit-
uate partly in Montgomery County and partly in Prince
George's County, which said police justice is hereby desig-
nated as the Police Justice for the Town of Takoma Park,
whose jurisdiction shall be confined to the limits of the said
town. In that portion of the said town which is within the
territorial limits of Montgomery County, the said police justice
shall have concurrent civil and criminal jurisdiction with the
police justice at Rockville; and in that portion of the said
town which is within the territorial limits of Prince George's
County, the said police justice shall have concurrent civil and
criminal jurisdiction with the police justice of Prince George's
County, as defined by Chapter 4-26 of the Laws of Maryland of
1927, or any amendment or re-enactment of that chapter or
any other Act now in effect or hereafter enacted defining the
said jurisdiction of the said police justice of Prince George's
County. The Mayor and Council of the said town may in
their discretion require the said police justice to give a bond
to the Town of Takoma Park, Maryland, in such penalty as
may be fixed by the said Mayor and Council, not to exceed
$500, with a surety to be approved by the said Mayor and
Council, conditioned that he will well and faithfully perform
the duties and obligations of police justice within the terri-
torial limits of the said town, as such duties are defined in
this Act and other statutes of this State, which bond, if re-
quired by the Mayor and Council as aforesaid, shall be filed
with the clerk of the said town. If such bond is required by
the Mayor and Council, the said police justice shall furnish
said bond before he acts as such.

The said police justice shall, on the first day of every month
following his appointment, account for and pay over to the
County Commissioners of Montgomery and Prince George's
Counties, respectively, all fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs
imposed by him, which he shall receive for or on account of
criminal offenses tried before him in those respective counties
under the provisions of the public general laws and the public
local laws, except for violation of the ordinances of the said
town, which fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs shall be paid
to the Town of Takoma Park.

The said police justice shall collect the fees now allowed
by law in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties to jus-