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BALTIMORE CITY.

power to

issue
execution
thereon.

mission, any other magistrate of the said ward may issue said
execution.
Sue. 4. Repealed by 1824, ch. 189, sec 9; and modified by 1834, ch. 270.
SEC. 5. Modified by 1825, ch. 194, ante page 856.

AN ACT relating to Constables in the Ciey of Baltimore .—1819, ch. 61.

In certain
cases de-
fendant
may be
committed.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in all cases where a capias ad satisfaciendum shall be issued by
a justice of the peace in the city of Baltimore, made returnable
on a day therein specified, and the defendant or defendants
shall be arrested on such process at any time before such return
day, the justice before whom the said process shall be returned,
is hereby authorized and required, upon the said defendant or
defendants being produced before him by the constable making
the arrest, to commit such defendant or defendants, in the same
manner as if such defendant or defendants had been produced
upon the return day, any law, usage or custom, to the contrary

Proviso.
Preamble*

notwithstanding $Provided, the said defendant or defendants
shall reside in the city of Baltimore, or out of the state of Mary-
land.

AN ACT relating to Crimes and Punishments in the City of Baltimore.
1821, ch. 229.
WHEREAS, persons charged with assaults and batteries and
other small offences against the peace, in the city of Baltimore,
who are unable to give bail for their appearance at the stated
term of the city court, often suffer a long imprisonment before
a trial can be had in the ordinary coarse, which is both oppres-
sive to the accused and expensive to the city; for remedy
whereof,

Justices to
endorse
names, &c.
of witnesses

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be the duty of the justices of the peace in the
city of Baltimore, whenever they shall commit any person or
persons for trial on a charge of assault and battery, for keeping
a disorderly house, for selling liquor without licenser, to endorse
on said commitments the names and places of residence, of the
witnesses who shall have appeared before them, on behalf of
the prosecution ; and it shall be the duty of the sheriff on re-
ceiving the same, to enter the names and places of residence of
said witnesses on their docket, and on demand to give a copy
thereof to the accused.

Accused
may waive
trial by
jury.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any of the said
persons committed to gaol as aforesaid for want of bail for any
of the offences aforesaid, shall think proper to waive his or her
right to a trial by jury, and have his OF her cause heard and
determined in a summary way, he or she may, in the interval
between the stated terms of the city court, make application in