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(e)   Washington County.—In Washington County, notwithstand-
ing any other provision of this section, any defendant who shall be
found guilty and ordered as part of his punishment to pay the costs
shall pay the sum of three dollars (3.00) for each criminal warrant.

(f)  Dorchester County.—In Dorchester County notwithstanding
any other provisions of this section, they shall be entitled to be paid
in criminal cases such fees as are established by rules of court.]

§ 22. Compensation for mileage or journey fees.

[No justice shall charge, take and receive any fees or compensation
for mileage, or journey fee for the performance of any duty or busi-
ness relating to his office as justice of the peace except what the party
may agree to pay to a justice going from his office to take the acknowl-
edgment of a deed or other instrument of writing.]

§ 22A. Payment before filing suit or action in Garrett County.

[In Garrett County, no suit or action shall be filed with any justice
of the peace designated as a trial magistrate until the fees allowed in
§ 20 have been paid to the justice of the peace.]

Section 39. And be it further enacted, That Section 15 of Article
37 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume),
title "Ferries," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

§ 15. Equipment on Chesapeake Bay ferries.

Every person who shall be licensed, or who shall contract to keep a
public ferry across the Chesapeake Bay, shall be obliged to carry on
board each public ferry boat a good and sufficient anchor and cable,
a small yawl with a good pair of oars, and also hatches and a sub-
stantial pair of oars and setting poles for the said ferry boat, under
the penalty of twenty-five dollars for every such neglect, to be recov-
ered before [a justice of the peace] any court of competent juris-
diction.

Section 40. And be it further enacted, That Sections 1, 2, 4(a),
5(a), 5(b), and 5(g) of Article 38 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and 1971 Supplement), title
"Fines and Forfeitures," be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

§ 1. Mode of recovering.

When any fine or penalty is imposed by any act of Assembly of this
State or by any ordinance of any incorporated city or town in this
State enacted in pursuance of sufficient authority, for the doing of
any act forbidden to be done by such act of Assembly or ordinance,
or for omitting to do any act required to be done by such act of
Assembly or ordinance, the doing of such act or the omission to do
such act shall be deemed to be a criminal offense. Any such offense
[alleged to have been committed within their respective territorial
jurisdictions may be prosecuted in Baltimore City in the Municipal
Court of Baltimore City, or in a county, in the Peoples' Court or be-