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208 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. XXVII
issue his search warrant to any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or other
officer of the law to whom such warrant may be properly directed, and
thereby cause the premises so to be designated in the warrant to be
searched; and if any one or more of any such registered returnable
containers, or any parts of the same, shall be found in, upon or about
the premises so designated, the officer executing such search warrant
shall thereupon report the same under his oath to the said Justice of
the Peace, who shall upon the said report, and upon charging a viola-
tion of such Section 333 issue his warrant for the arrest of such person
against whom such charge or charges shall be so made, and cause him
to be brought before him for trial.
1904, art. 27, sec. 311. 1888, art. 27, sec. 206. 1882, ch. 491. sec. 6. 1892, ch. 262.
1902, ch. 245. 1916, ch. 528, sec. 336.
336. The several Justices of the Peace in the respective counties
of this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Circuit Courts
for their respective counties; and the Justices of the Peace selected to
sit at the respective station houses in the City of Baltimore shall have
concurrent jurisdiction with the Criminal Court of Baltimore in the
case of persons arrested for the violation of the provisions of Section
333 hereof, and such respective Justices of the Peace shall proceed to
hear and determine such cases when the parties arrested upon charges
of such violation are respectively brought before them, and to acquit
such persons, or to sentence such persons for the offense if convicted
thereof, unless such respective persons so charged, when so brought
before any such Justice of the Peace and before they are respectively
tried, as aforesaid, shall pray a jury trial. If any person charged
with the commission of any one or more of the several offenses men-
tioned in Section 333 hereof, and brought before any Justice of the
Peace, shall pray a jury trial as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the
said Justice of the Peace to commit such person for trial, or to hold
him in bail to appear before the Criminal Court of Baltimore or the
Circuit Court for the county as the case may be; and to return the
commitment or the recognizance in such case immediately to the Clerk
of said Court, and if such person or persons shall be found to be guilty
of a violation of any of the provisions of Section 333 hereof, the Court
or justice of the Peace imposing the punishment therein prescribed shall
also award to the rightful owner or dealer possession of all of the prop-
erty involved in such violation.
1904, art. 27, sec. 312. 1902, ch. 245, sec. 206A. 1916, ch. 528, sec. 337.
337. A returnable container as used in this sub-title is hereby
defined to be any device made of any material whatsoever, used for
the purpose of holding, containing or converting into a package, goods,
wares or merchandise, or packages thereof, either of necessity or for
convenience of delivery or sale, and which container is, by its very nature
susceptible of repeated use for such purpose, and the title to which
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