HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1043
Saturday may be a legal holiday), and at each of said
respective sittings shall sit to hear, try and determine
cases, and to perform all the duties which he is required by
law to perform. The said respective Justices of the Peace,
so selected to sit at any station-house in the City of Balti-
more, shall transact no other business at such station-house
except the business required of them, by the several sec-
tions of this sub-title of this Article, to be by them, respec-
tively, performed a, t such station-house. The attendance
at any such station-house of an additional Justice of the
Peace shall be regulated and controlled by the Governor;
but the Governor in regulating the attendance of
an additional Justice of the Peace at a sta-
tion-house shall not assign any Justice of the Peace to said
station-house, under this section or Section 737 of this said
Article 4, other than a Justice of the Peace selected by the
Governor to sit at a station-house in said city, as long as
one of the said Justices, of the Peace so assigned by the
Governor shall be available for said purpose.
737. If any Justice of the Peace who has been selected
as aforesaid to sit at any station-house in the City of Bal-
timore is unable, by reason of sickness or other unavoid-
able cause, to attend to his duty at said station-house, or
fails to attend at said station-house, at any time, when his
presence is there required, it shall be the duty of the
Governor to require another Justice of the Peace
to perform the duties at said station-house, of
the said Justice of the Peace so sick or absent;
and it shall be the duty of the said Justice
of the Peace so required to perform said duties at said
station-house, to perform the same as long as may be nec-
essary, or until the Governor shall select another Justice
to perform said duties; the Justice of the Peace so required
to perform said duties at said station-house by
the Governor, shall receive six dollars per day for every
day he shall actually serve at such station-house; which
pay shall be deducted from the pay provided to be paid to
the Justice selected to sit at such station-house and failing
to attend; provided, that said pay of the said Justice who
may sit in the absence of the Justice so selected to sit at
any station-house, shall not be deducted from the pay of
the said last-named Justice, if the Governor shall certify
that such absence was by reason of his necessary attend-
ance upon any court or Justice of the Peace of said State,
under its process, nor when such absence shall not exceed
thirty days in the course of any one year, and when the
Governor shall certify that such last-named absence, not
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