1434 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

carrying of concealed weapons, maliciously destroying property,
unlawful hunting, gaming, simple larceny, care and protection
of minors, Sabbath breaking, and all other violation of law that
are classed and specified as misdemeanprs; provided, however,
that said justice shall not have any jurisdiction in cases of a
felony charged in any warrant or indictment, except for the
purpose of arrest, commitment for a hearing, commitment for
the action of the grand jury. And said justice shall have power
to issue all processes 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 per-
son 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 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 recogniz-
ance with the name or names and residences of the witnesses
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 recog-
nizance sent up by the justice the clerk shall place the same on
the appeal docket and issue a subpoena for the witness 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 Mont-
gomery County in case the judgment of the justice is against
the accused, and he shall appeal. He shall enter into a recog-
nizance with security to be approved by said justice, and in
every such case the appeal shall be taken within 10 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 writ--
ing 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 com-