CITY COURT.

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of criminal cases from Baltimore county court to any other

court for trial, be levied and assessed upon the assessable

property in that part of Baltimore county not included within

the city and precincts of Baltimore, and levied as other ex-

penses are.

AN ACT relating to Baltimore City Court.— -1823, ch. 210.

Sfic. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases of misdemeanors which may hereafter be pro-

Eipenses
of prose-
cution.

secuted in Baltimore city court, at the instance of any indivi-

dual or individuals where the party or parties so prosecuted

shall be acquitted, all the legal costs and expenses attending

any such prosecution, shall be paid by the individual or indi-

viduals at whose instance such prosecution was commenced,

unless the judges of the said court, or a majority of them, shall

certify that there was probable cause for such prosecution.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That such process may be issued

How to be

for the recovery of the costs and expenses aforesaid, against the

recovered.

individual or individuals who may become liable for the same

under this act, as could be issued against the party or parties

prosecuted for the offence aforesaid, in case he, she or they be

convicted.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That whenever the grand juries
attending said Baltimore city court, shall find any presentment

Present-
ments to be
endorsed.

against any person or persons for a misdemeanor, the said

grand jury are hereby authorized and required to endorse on

said presentment the name or names of the person or persons,

at whose instance such presentment is made, who shall be

deemed and taken to be the person or persons at whose in-

tance such prosecution was commenced within the meaning

of this act.

AN ACT to repeal an Act relating to the removal of Criminal Causes in

Baltimore City and County Court, passed at December session, eighteen

hundred and twenty-one, chapter two hundred and forty-four.— 1824,

ch. 27.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Repeal.

the act, entitled, an act relating to the removal of criminal

causes in Baltimore city and county court, passed at December

session, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, chapter two hun-

dred and forty-four, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

AN ACT to authorize the Clerk of the City Court of Baltimore to grant

Licenses to the Keepers of Billiard Tables in the said City.— 1826,

ch. 219.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Granting
licenses

That from and after the passage of this act, the requisitions of
the act of December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-four,

transferred
to city
court.