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the alleged offense, pray a jury trial, or if the State's Attorney for the
County or city where the offense occurs shall, before the trial of such
alleged offense, pray a jury trial on behalf of the State, it shall be the
duty of such justice to commit such alleged offender for trial, or to hold
him to bail to appear for trial in the court having criminal jurisdiction
in the case, at its then or next session, and to return said commitment
or recognizance, with the names and residences of the witnesses for the
prosecution endorsed thereon, forthwith to the Clerk of such court; and
the justice of the peace before whom the accused is brought for trial
shall inform him seasonably of his right to demand a trial by jury.

Conspiracy.

1904, art. 27, see. 34. 1888, art. 27, see. 31. 1884, ch. 266.

40. An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or
procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade
dispute between employers and workmen, shall not be indictable as a
conspiracy, if such act, committed by one person, would not be punish-
able as an offense; nothing in this section shall affect the law relating to
riot, unlawful assembly, breach of the peace, or any offense against any
person or against property.

For recent cases involving the common law crime of conspiracy, see Gar-
land v. State, 112 Md. 90; Lanasa v. State, 109 Md. 605.

Counterfeiting and Forgery.

Ibid. sec. 35. 1888, art. 27, sec. 32. 1860, art. 30, sec. 24. 1799, ch. 75.
1809, ch. 138, sec. 6. 1800, ch. 550. 1900, ch. 590. 1902, ch. 419.

41. Any person who shall falsely make, forge or counterfeit, or
cause or procure to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly
aid or assist in falsely making, forging, altering or counterfeiting any
deed, will, testament or codicil, bond, writing obligatory, bill of ex-
change, promissory note for the payment of money or property, endorse-
ment or assignment of any bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange,
promissory note for the payment of money or property, acquittance or
receipt for money or property, or any acquittance or receipt either for
money or for property, with intention to defraud any person whomso-
ever, or shall utter or publish as true any false, forged, altered or coun-
terfeited deed, will, testament or codicil, bond, writing obligatory, bill
of exchange, promissory note for the payment of money or property, or
endorsement, or assignment of any bond, writing obligatory, bill of
exchange, promissory note for the payment of money or property, ac-
quittance or receipt for money or property, shall be deemed a felon, and
on being convicted thereof shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not
less than one nor more than ten years.

A check is a bill of exchange, and a forgery of the endorsement thereon
is a felony and punishable under this section. An indictment cannot be
amended without the concurrence of the grand jury, save in matters of
form—see section 493, etc. Hawthorne v. State, 56 Md. 534 (decided prior to
the act of 1890, ch. 550). And see Laird v. State, 61 Md. 309.

A certificate of indebtedness known as city stock is a bond within the
meaning of this section, and an endorsement of such certificate with fraud-