1526 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 720

order of the said magistrates as herein provided, or upon order
of a court of competent jurisdiction. No fines or costs shall
be paid to any sheriff or other custodian in cases from the
magistrates. Release of prisoners otherwise than as herein
provided shall be deemed a violation of this Act.

93. Other Justices. Any civil or criminal action or pro-
ceeding instituted before a justice of the peace, other than a
trial magistrate, shall be promptly removed by said justice,
by a transfer of the original papers, with a copy of the docket
entries, to the nearest or only trial magistrate of the county
for trial and determination or other action within his juris-
diction; provided that before removal of a criminal case the
justice of the peace to whom a writ for the arrest of any per-
son is returnable may take recognizance, as now or hereafter
authorized by law, for the appearance of said person before
the trial magistrate to whom said case is to be removed; and
provided that any prosecution for the violation of an ordinance
of an incorporated city or town shall be originally instituted
only before a trial magistrate or other justice of the peace
regularly exercising his functions within the limits of such
municipality, and in the event there is no Justice of the
Peace located in the corporate limits of such town, prosecution
may he originally instituted before the nearest available
Justice of the Peace.

94. Costs. All justices of the peace shall charge the fees
and costs authorized by law to be imposed in civil and criminal
cases, but all such fees and costs, and all fines, penalties and
forfeitures imposed and collected by trial magistrates, shall
be paid to the County Commissioners of their respective
counties, except fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs for
violations of the Motor Vehicle Laws, which shall be promptly
remitted to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, as now pro-
vided by law. All such fines, forfeitures, and penalties and
costs so remitted to the County Commissioners shall be re-
tained and used for county purposes, unless a different dis-
position is expressly directed by statute; provided, however,
that in Frederick and Anne Arundel Counties, the County
Commissioners shall within a reasonable time, pay to the sev-
eral incorporated municipalities of said counties 50% of all
fines, penalties and forfeitures received by them arising from
the violation of the ordinances of any of the said incorporated
municipalities, and provided further that in Washington,
Prince George's, St. Mary's, Montgomery, Allegany, Calvert
and Carroll Counties the County Commissioners shall, within
a reasonable time, pay to the several incorporated municipali-
ties of said counties all fines, penalties and forfeitures received
by them arising from the violation of the ordinances of any