1316 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 782]

such alleged offense, pray a jury trial upon the part of the
State, it shall be the duty of said justice to commit such
alleged offender for trial in the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, at its then session, if it be in session, or its next session
if it be not then in session, and to return said commitment or
recognizance, with the name and names or residence of the wit-
nesses for the prosecution indorsed thereon, forthwith to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court, and the said justice shall inform the
person charged of his right to a jury trial; and on receipt of
the recognizance sent up by the justice the clerk shall place
the same on the appeal docket and issue a subpoena for the wit-
nesses named by the justice, and the case shall be tried on the
information or the warrant as if on appeal; and if on waiver
of jury trial before the justice and trial before him either
party shall feel aggrieved, there shall be a right of appeal
to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, in case the
judgment of the justice is against the accused and he shall
appeal. He shall enter into recognizance with security to be
approved by said justice, and in every such case the appeal
shall be taken within ten days after the judgment entered:
provided, however, that any person charged with any of the
above-named offenses may at any time before trial before said
justice waive a hearing and ask in writing to be admitted to
bail or committed in order that the grand jury for Montgomery
county at the next term of the Circuit\ Court for said county
may investigate the charge against him, her or them, in which
event said justice of the peace shall comply with the law pro-
viding for committing or bailing of parties held for the action
of the grand jury.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That the several justices of the peace
of the said Motgomery county shall have all that civil and
criminal jurisdiction had and possessed by them, on the first
day of January, 1910, and all laws in force at that time relat-
ing to the powers, duties, authority and jurisdiction of the said
justices of the peace of the said Montgomery county are here-
by declared to be of full force and effect, and this act shall in
no wise be construed to take away any of that civil or criminal
jurisdiction had by the said justices of the peace of the said
Montgomery county on the day and year last mentioned afore-
said, provided, however, that in all cases over which the said
justices of the peace have jurisdiction the said Police Justice
shall likewise have concurrent jurisdiction.

SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That whenever any warrant is sworn
out before any of the said justices of the peace for any offense
committed in said county, which offense the said justice of