PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1295

A. M. (and for the purpose of this section Saturday afternoons
shall not be considered legal holidays unless the whole of said
Saturday may be a legal holiday), and at each of said respective
sittings shall sit to hear, try and determine cases, and to per-
form all the duties which he is required by law to perform.
The said respective justices of the peace, so selected to sit- at
any station-house in the City of Baltimore, shall transact no
other business at such station-house except the business required
of them, by the several sections of this sub-title of this article,
to be by them, respectively, performed at such station-house.
The attendance at any such station-house of an additional jus-
tice of the peace shall be regulated and controlled by the Board
of Police Commissioners for the City of Baltimore; but the
Board of Police Commissioners in regulating the attendance of
an additional justice of the peace at a station-house shall not
assign any justice of the peace to said station-house, under this
section or section 637 of this said Article 4, other than a jus-
tice of the peace selected by the Governor to sit at a station-
house in said city, as long as one of the said justices of the
peace so assigned by the Governor shall be available for said
purpose.

SEC. 632. Each of the said justices of the peace shall have
power to hear, try and determine the case of every person who
may be arrested and brought before him in the said City of
Baltimore, charged with the violation of section 275 of Article
27 of the Code of Public General Laws of 1888, title "Crimes
and Punishments," and to hear, try and determine the cases of
all persons arrested and brought before him charged, with any
offense specified in sections 865 to 868, inclusive, of this said
Article 4, or in sections 881 to 884, inclusive, of this said Arti-
cle 4; and to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons
brought before him charged with the violation of Chapter 351
of the Acts of 1898, or charged with any disturbance of the
public peace; and to hear, try and determine the cases of all
persons brought before him charged with assault or with assault
and battery; provided that no justice of the peace shall impose
any fine exceeding $100 or any term of imprisonment exceed-
ing one year, in any case of assault, or assault and battery, and
to hear, try and determine all charges of carrying concealed
weapons and all violations of section 4 of this act; and to hear,
try and determine all prosecutions or criminal proceedings for
an act done or omitted to be done in the City of Baltimore, the
doing of which act, or the omission to do which act, is or may
be punishable under any act of assembly of this State or under
any ordinance of the Mayor or City Council of Baltimore, by