HERBERT R. O'CONOR., GOVERNOR. 1879
hereafter provided for, of peace, to act at such times and
places as is hereinafter provided for. Each justice so selected
shall keep his office at the station-house for which he was
appointed, and shall attend at such station-house from 8
o'clock A. M. until 10 o'clock A. M. on every day of the year
except Sundays and legal holidays, and from 3 o'clock P. M.
until 5 P. M. on every day except Sundays and legal holidays;
and upon every Sunday and legal holiday shall attend at the
station-house for which he was appointed from 9 o'clock A. M.
until 11 o'clock A. M. (and for the purpose of this section
Saturday afternoons shall not be considered legal holidays
unless the whole of said 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
Baltimore, shall transact no other business at such station-
house except the business required of them, by the several
sections of this sub-title, of this Article, to be by them, respec-
tively, performed at such station-house. The attendance at
any such station-house of an additional Justice of the Peace
shall be regulated and controlled by the Police Commissioner
for the City of Baltimore; but the Police Commissioner in
regulating the attendance of an additional Justice of the Peace
at a station-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.
Each of the said Justices of the Peace, before entering upon
the duties of his office, shall give to the State of Maryland,
good and sufficient bond, with a surety or sureties to be ap-
proved by the Judge of the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
in the penalty of Three Thousand Dollars ($3, 000. 00), upon the
condition expressed in each of said bonds that the Justice
giving it shall truly and faithfully discharge, execute and
perform all and singular the duties and obligations of a Jus-
tice of the Peace, and that he will account for and pay over to
the Collector of Baltimore City, or to whomsoever else may be
otherwise or hereafter designated by law as the proper recipi-
ent thereof, respectively, all fees, fines, penalties and forfeitures
which he is bound to account for and pay over as aforesaid,
and that he will faithfully and truly account for and pay
over to the persons, firms or corporations entitled thereto, all
money or monies belonging to such persons, firms or corpora-
tions which may come into his hands as such Justice of the
Peace.
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