254                              Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 50

prescribed in the preceding sections; and no warrant shall be issued
by the justices of the peace to either constable of the districts 3, 17,
21, 22, 24 and 25, or to the sheriff of said county, on the oath or
affirmation of another constable or other officer, and no warrant
shall be issued by said justice to a constable or sheriff on the oath
or affirmation of any police officer of the town of Hagerstown; and
when any warrant is used by a justice of the peace on the complaint,
oath or affirmation of any constable, sheriff, deputy sheriff or other
officer, and such charge shall be dismissed, or the defendant ac-
quitted, no fees in such cases shall be allowed by the County Com-
missioners to any officer serving such warrant or other process.

19-9.

The constables of the third, seventeenth, twenty-first, twenty-
second, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth districts of said county, for
the service of all process and summonses for witness made by
them in criminal cases, shall receive from the County Commissioners
the sum of thirty-five dollars per month, payable in cash, or county
order equivalent to cash, on the day of his making report, which he
is required to submit in writing to the County Commissioners at
their first regular meeting in each month, under oath taken before
the clerk of said commissioners. Said report shall contain in detail
each and every charge he may have against the county; provided, that
if the amount of the constables' fees for service of process by him, as
appear by his report and the report of the justice of the peace, is
less than thirty-five dollars, then and in that case such constable
shall only receive the amount of fees appearing by said reports to
have been earned by him.

19-10.

The duly appointed and qualified police officers of the town of
Hagerstown are hereby invested with full power and authority of
county constables, and shall serve all process issued by either
justice of the peace in the said districts 3, 17, 21, 22, 24 and 25,
without pay other than that received from said town, but they
shall not have any jurisdiction in civil cases.]

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved April 11, 1972.

CHAPTER 50
(House Bill 491)

AN ACT to legalize the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to the Balti-
more County Code, 1968, and to make the same evidence of the
portions of Public Local Laws of Baltimore County, Maryland, pur-
porting to be contained therein.