HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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of ten dollars, to be recovered as small debts before a
court of competent jurisdiction of the county where the
party charged may reside. If the forfeiture is imposed by a
circuit court for any county [or the Criminal Court of
Baltimore], it shall be recovered by the owner of the
flatboat or other vessel.

Article 36 - Fees of Officers

4.

If any officer shall, by himself, his deputies, agents,
or clerks, charge, receive, ask or demand any larger or
greater fees than are allowed by this article, he shall for
each offense forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred
dollars and not less than twenty dollars, to be recovered by
indictment in the circuit court for the county where such
officer resides[; or, if the offense be committed in the
City of Baltimore, by indictment in the Criminal Court of
Baltimore, one half to the informer, the other half to the
State].

Article 38 - Fines and Forfeitures

4A.

No person who may be prosecuted for any misdemeanor or
offense and discharged by the court on submission, or fined
not exceeding fifteen cents, or prosecuted for any crime and
acquitted on trial by jury, shall be burdened with the
payment of any costs or fees accruing on such prosecution,
but all such costs and fees, with the legal costs of the
party accused, shall be paid by the county; and no person
taken upon any warrant or capias on presentment where no
bill of indictment is found shall be liable to pay or give
security for costs, but such costs shall be paid by the
county. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall hot,
however, be liable in any such cases tried in the [Criminal]
CIRCUIT Court [of] FOR Baltimore CITY for the appearance
fees allowed by law to the attorney of the traverser.

Article 40 - General Assembly

30.

In the discharge of any of its functions or powers, the
Legislative Policy Committee, or any of the standing
committees of the General Assembly, subject to the prior
approval of the Legislative Policy Committee, may administer
oaths, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses
and the production of any papers, books, accounts, documents
and testimony, and cause the deposition of witnesses,
residing either within or without the State, to be taken in
the manner prescribed by law or rule of procedure for taking
depositions in civil actions. If any person fails to comply