1138 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 487. 1904, sec. 433. 1888, sec. 281. 1880, ch 485.

544. Any person who may commit any indictable offense on a steam-
boat or railroad train within the State of Maryland may be presented, in-
dicted, tried and convicted in any county or city from, to or through which
the said boat or train may run, and on arrest be taken before, and in case
of bailable offenses, be held to bail by any justice of the peace 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 jurisdiction. Taylor v. State, 79
Md. 135.

An. Code, sec. 488. 1908, ch. 408.

545. Any person who may commit any crimes, felony or misdemeanor,
on or at the boundary or divisional line between any of the counties in this
State, or 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 jurisdiction by issuing
process for the arrest and prosecution of the offender shall have jurisdic-
tion to charge, present, indict, try, convict and sentence; and in such case
it shall be only necessary for the State to establish 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.

An. Code, sec. 489. 1908, ch. 487.

546.1 The jurisdiction of every county bounded at any point by navi-
gable 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.

An. Code, sec. 490. 1908, ch. 487.

547. The center of the waters aforesaid shall be deemed to be as rep-
resented on the county maps issued under authority of the Laws of Mary-
land, 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.

An. Code, sec. 491. 1908, ch. 487.

548. 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.

1 This section and the two following ones are identical with art. 75, secs. 161-163.