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61. The judge of said court shall hold a court every Saturday
during the year, on which day no petit jury shall be in attend-
ance, unless such jury has been empanelled, and the case before
it not concluded.

62. All commitments and recognizances for all felonies, crimes,
offences and misdemeanors committed within said city, shall be
returned from time to time by any justice of the peace taking the
same before said court, and shall be lodged with the clerk of said
court on the day next preceding the day appointed for holding
the said court.

63. The said court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, in all cases of controversies
between masters, servants, and including petitions for freedom.

64. In all cases of misdemeanor, which may be prosecuted in
said court, at the instance o,f any person, if the party or parties
so prosecuted shall be acquitted, all the legal costs and expenses
attending the prosecution shall be paid by the person at whose
instance such prosecution was commenced, unless the court shall
certify that there was probable cause for the prosecution.

65. The same process may be issued for the recovery of the
costs and expenses of such prosecution against the person who
may become liable therefor under the last preceding section, as
could be issued against the party prosecuted, if he, she or they
had been convicted.

66. Whenever the grand jury shall find any presentment

against any person for a misdemeanor, they shall endorse on the

presentment the name of the person at whose instance such pre-

sentment is made, who shall be deemed and taken to be the person

at whose instance such prosecution was commenced.

67. If any security in any recognizance shall request to deliver
up the principal, the said court, or the judge thereof in the recess,
may accept such surrender, and may require and take other recog-
nizance, or commit the principal to jail until he gives such se-
curity as the law requires.

68. If any person convicted in said court shall have a child or
children under the age of twenty-one years, and shall not have
property sufficient to maintain such child or children, the said