JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

it is issued, and the name therein. Each constable appointed
by the County Commissioners as inspector of license shall
receive from them a fee of ten cents for each license inspected
by him, on making affidavit that he has personally inspected
said license.

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142A. The several justices of the peace for Baltimore
County shall have jurisdiction concurrent with that exer-
cised by the Circuit Court for said county in all cases
of assault, without any felonious intent; and in all cases
of assault and battery, and in all misdemeanors not pun-
ishable by confinement in the penitentiary, which may
be committed within said county, and shall have juris-
diction in all prosecutions or proceedings for the recovery of
any penalty for doing or omitting to do any act, the doing of
which or the omissson to do, which is made punishable under
the laws of this State, within their said jurisdiction by any
pecuniary fine or penalty, or by imprisonment in jail or in the
Maryland House of Correction; provided, however, that said
justices of the peace shall in no case have jurisdiction to try
any person on a charge of selling any sort of intoxicating
liquors or beverages on Sunday, or to minors, or without
license, or within any limit, precinct or district prohibited by
law, all of which acts or commissions are hereby declared to
be criminal offenses, and the said justices shall have power to
issue all process and to do all acts which may be necessary to
the exercise of their said jurisdiction, and may try and deter-
mine all cases whereof they may have jurisdiction, and may
pronounce judgment, sentence therein, in the same manner
and to the same extent as the Circuit Court for said county
could in such cases, if such cases were tried before it without
the intervention of a jury; provided, however, that if any
person when brought before any such justice having jurisdic-

Jurisdiction
of Justices of
the Peace.

tion of the case shall, before trial for the alleged offense, pray
a jury trial, or if the State's Attorney for said county shall,
before the trial of such alleged offenses pray a jury trial on
the part of the State, it shall be the duty of any such justice
to commit such alleged offender for trial in the Circuit Court
for the said county at its then session, if it be then in session,
or at its next session, if it be not then in session, and to return
said commitment or recognizance with the names and resi-
dences of the witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon
forthwith to the clerk of the said court; provided, the justice
before whom the case is for trial shall inform the person
charged of his right to a jury trial; and should such person
waive a jury trial and demand a trial before such justice, then

Jury trial.