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in any such county or city; but such presentment, indictment and trial
shall be in the same county and city in which such justice of the peace
shall be.

This section applied in overruling a plea to the jurisdiction. Taylor v.
State, 79 Md. 135.

1908, ch. 408.

488. Any person,who may commit any crimes, felony or misde-
meanor, on or at the boundary or divisional line between any of the
counties in this State, of so near thereto or where the exact location of
such boundary is so uncertain as to render it .doubtful in which county
the offense was committed, then the county which first assumes jurisdic-
tion by issuing process for the arrest and prosecution of the offender
shall have jurisdiction to charge, present, indict, try, convict and sen-
tence ; and in such case it shall be only necessary for the State to estab-
lish the venue alleged in the information, warrant or indictment, by
proving that the offense was at or on the boundary of the county wherein
the accused is being tried, or was so near thereto or the location of the
boundary is so uncertain as to render it doubtful in which county the
crime was committed.

1908, ch. 487.

489.* The jurisdiction of every county bounded at any point by
navigable waters shall extend from the shore to the inside of the channel,
which shall be regarded to be the center of said waters, except where
said waters adjoin neighboring States, in which case the jurisdiction of
said counties shall continue to the ultimate limits of the State at the
place in question; provided, however, that nothing in this or the two
following sections shall be construed as changing such rights as the
State of Maryland may have on or under such waters.

1908, ch. 487.

490. The center of the waters aforesaid shall be deemed to be as
represented on the county maps issued under authority of the Laws of
Maryland, 1896, Chapter 51, and the Laws of Maryland, 1898, Chapter
129, and said maps shall be admissible as evidence as to the location of
the boundary or boundaries aforesaid.

1908, ch. 487.

491. Certified copies of said county maps shall be filed with the
clerks of the several courts for all the several counties of Maryland,
and also with the Board of County Commissioners of said counties; said
maps to be regarded as official and authoritative.

*This section and the two following ones are identical with article 75, sections
151-153.

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