EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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or by imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland House of Cor-
rection ; provided, however, that said justices of the peace

Their duties
defined.

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 offences, 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 determine 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 in 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 jurisdiction of the case shall, before

trial for the alleged offence, 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 residences

of the witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon forth-

with to the clerk of the said court ; provided, the justice before

Justice to try

whom the case is for trial shall inform the person charged of

persons on
waivure of

his right to a jury trial ; and should such person waive a jury

jury trial.

trial and demand a trial before such justice, then it shall be

the duty of said justice to forthwith notify the State's Attorney

for said county of the name of such person and the character

of the charge against him, and said justice shall not proceed

to try such case within a less period than seven days from the

date of sending said notification, unless he should sooner re-

ceive information from said State's Attorney, also waiving a

jury trial therein, in which event he may proceed to try such

case within seven days from said notification ; provided, how-

ever, that this section shall not apply to any justice of the

peace for the12th Election District except the station house

justice for said district, which said justices other than the

station house justices shall not exercise any criminal jurisdic-

tion except as set forth in the next succeeding section of this

Article.

142. Whenever any justice of the peace appointed for the

I2th Election District of Baltimore County, other than the

justice seleted as aforesaid to sit at the station house at

Canton in said district, as aforesaid, shall issue a State writ