1296 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 777]
pecuniary fine only, not exceeding one hundred dollars; to hear,
try and determine the cases of all persons brought before him
charged with the violation of laws relating to hawkers and ped-
dlers, and to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons
brought before him charged with the offense of indecent expos-
ure ; to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons brought
before him for Sunday gaming, Sunday work, Sunday sales or
Sabbath-breaking; and to hear, try and determine the cases of
all persons brought before him charged with being a vagrant or
with being an habitually disorderly person (not insane). But
it shall be the duty of the said justice before proceeding to hear,
try and determine any of the charges aforesaid, to inform the
party or parties charged therewith of his or their respective
rights to a jury trial; and if a jury trial be prayed by the party
or parties charged, or if the state's attorney for said city shall
before trial for the alleged offense pray a jury trial on the
part of the State, the justice shall forthwith commit or hold the
said party or parties to bail for trial in the Criminal Court of
Baltimore, and endorse on the commitment or recognizance the
fact of a jury trial having been prayed. It is hereby expressly
provided that the said justice shall not have power to try and
determine any violation of the Public General Laws of this
State relating to licenses (except violations of laws relating to
hawkers and peddlers heretofore mentioned), and shall not
have power to try and determine any violation of section 682
of this said Article 4, but shall cause all such offenders against
the Public General or Local Laws to be committed or held to
bail for trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That eight additional
sections be and the same are hereby added to said Article 4 to
follow immediately after said section 632 as repealed and re-en-
acted with amendments, said eight additional sections to be
known, respectively, as sections 632A, 632B, 632C, 632D,
632E, 632F, 632G and 632 H, and to read as follows:
SEC. 632A. In all cases in which any person is tried and
committed before any justice of the peace assigned to any of the
police stations in the City of Baltimore, and sentenced by him
to any imprisonment (other than imprisonment in default of
payment of fines) or to any fine of over $50 (exclusive of costs).
he may within ten days after sentence, exclusive of the day of
sentence, pray an appeal to the Criminal Court of Baltimore
upon waiving his right to plead on the trial of said appeal in
said Criminal Court, his former jeopardy resulting from his
said trial and conviction before said justice, no formal waiver
of said right to plead said former jeopardy shall be necessary;
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