ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  623

CHAPTER 233.

AN ACT to repeal Section 16 of Chapter 200 of the Acts
of Assembly of Maryland of 1916, and to re-enact the same
with amendments. Said re-enacted section being a part of
the Charter of the Mayor and Common Council of Mount
Rainier, and relating to the designation of police justices
and the compensations of police justices and town bailiffs,
etc.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 16 of Chapter 200 of the Acts of
Assembly of Maryland of 1916, be, and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as
follows:

16. That any Justice of the Peace for Prince George's
County, resident in the town of Mount Rainier who may be
designated by the Mayor and Common Council as a Police
Justice, is hereby declared to be a conservator of the peace
of said town, and it shall be his duty to order the arrest
of any person found by him violating any ordinance or reg-
ulation made by the Mayor and Common Council. Upon
complaint made to any said Justice of the Peace of the viola-
tion of any such ordinance or regulation, said Justice shall
issue process in the name of the Mayor and Common Council
of Mount Rainier against the party offending and shall try
and determine the matter in the same manner as is provided
in the Code of Public General Laws of this State, and shall re-
ceive the same fees therefor or such other compensation pay-
able out of the town funds as may be prescribed by the Mayor
and Common Council. In default of payment of any fine or
penalty imposed by such Justice of the Peace for the viola-
tion of any such ordinance or regulation, the Justice of the
Peace determining such case may commit the party fined
in accordance with the provisions of Section 15, and in all
cases the town officers duly appointed shall have similar powers,
proceed in a similar manner and receive the same fees as con-
stables now receive in similar cases in which the State of Mary-
land is a party, or such other compensation payable out of town
funds as may be prescribed by the Mayor and Common Council.
All warrants sworn out in the name of the Mayor and Com-
mon Council of Mount Rainier shall be amendable' at any time