PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1315

said county, and shall attend at his office as often as the business
of same may require his attention, and at least four days of
each and every week from the hours of ten o'clock A. M. until
one o'clock P. M.; provided, however, that said justice shall
give notice by publication or otherwise, of the days of the
week that he will be at said office for the transaction of business.
SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the said police justice herein
provided for shall have the same jurisdiction in civil actions as
other justices of the peace of the said county, and shall have
criminal jurisdiction concurrent with that exercised by the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County in all cases of assault
and battery, and in the following other misdemeanors, to wit:
Cruelty to animals, vagrancy, collection of tolls from funerals,
drunkenness and disorderly conduct, disturbance of the public
peace, wrongfully opening or breaking the seal of any letter
not addressed to the party, selling deadly weapons to minors,
obscene publications, blasphemy, destroying bounded or bound-
ary trees, frand upon turnpike companies, all charges of viola-
tions of health laws, violation of laws relating to turnpike com-
panies, failing to keep a light reflecting upon toll bars, trading
stamps and female sitters, selling of intoxicating liquors, gam-
bling, wife beating, deserting of wife or child, disorderly
houses, carrying of concealed weapons, maliciously destroying
property, unlawful hunting, gaming, care and protection of
minors, Sabbath breaking, and all actions for the recovery of
any fine, penalty or forfeiture under the laws of the State,
within the limits of said Montgomery county, and all other
violations of law that are classed and specified as misdemeanors,
now in existence or hereafter to be created by law, including,
all violations of any ordinance of any incorporated town in
Montgomery county; provided, however, that said justice shall
not have any jurisdiction in cases of felony charged in any
warrant or indictment, except for the purpose of arrest, com-
mitment for a hearing, commitment for the action of the grand
jury. And the said justice shall have power to issue all proc-
esses and to do all acts which may be necessary to the exercise
of his said jurisdiction; may try and determine all cases whereof
he may have jurisdiction, and may pronounce judgment and
sentence therein in the same manner and to the same extent
as the Circuit Court for Montgomery County could in such
cases if said cases were tried before said Court without the
investigation of a jury; provided, however, that if any person
when brought before said justice having jurisdiction of the case,
shall before trial of the alleged offense pray a jury trial, or, if
the State's Attorney for said county shall before the trial of