WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 571
CHAPTER 208
(Senate Bill 115)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
721 and 732 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Charter (1938
Edition), title "Baltimore City, " sub-title "Justices of
the Peace and Constables, " to change the sub-title to
"Justices of the Peace, " and eliminating the references
in said sections to the People's Court.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 721 and 732 of Article 4 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Char-
ter (1938 Edition), title "Baltimore City, " sub-title "Jus-
tices of the Peace and Constables, " be and they are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

Justices of the Peace

721. The said Justices of the Peace, when called out of
their offices for the purpose of taking acknowledgments
and affidavits, may receive such compensation for their
services, in addition to the fees prescribed by law, as the
party requiring their services may allow them.

732. The said several Justices of the Peace, assigned
to the station-houses in Baltimore City, shall have the
right to preserve order and decorum when sitting at the
said station-houses in the discharge of their. duties as such
Police Justices and shall have the right to punish any
breach of order or decorum committed in their presence
by a fine not exceeding $10. 00, to be collected as other fines
are collected, and in default of the payment of said fine
imposed by the said several Justices of the Peace assigned
to the station-houses in Baltimore City the said Justice
shall have the power to commit the person on whom said
fine is imposed to the Baltimore City Jail for a period not
exceeding one day for each one dollar of fine so imposed.
Provided, that in all cases where fine is imposed under
this section the party on whom the said fine is imposed, if
he feels aggrieved thereby, may within three days (exclu-
sive of the date of the imposition of said fine) appeal to the
Criminal Court of Baltimore from the action of the said
Police Justice in such case; and pending the hearing of
said appeal, shall give surety for his appearance in the
Criminal Court of Baltimore in a sum to be fixed by the