CALVERT COUNTY. 1487

Talbot, St. Mary's, Garrett, Howard, Somerset, Washington, Dorchester,
Kent, and Charles Counties shall have, in addition to the jurisdiction
which they now possess, and which may be conferred upon them by or
under the laws of this Staite, jurisdiction concurrent with that exercised
by the circuit courts for said counties in all cases of assault without any
felonious intent; and in all cases of assault and battery, and in all cases
of petit larceny, when the value of the property stolen does not exceed the
sum of five dollars, and in all misdemeanors not punishable by confine-
ment in the penitentiary, which may be committed within their respective
jurisdictions; and shall have jurisdiction in all prosecutions or proceed-
ings for the recovery of any penalty for doing or omitting to do any act,
the doing of which, or the omission to do which, is made punishable under
the laws of this State, within their said jurisdiction by any pecuniary fine
or penalty or by imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland House of Cor-
rection ; all of which acts or omissions are hereby declared to be criminal
offenses; and the said justices shall have power to issue all process and to
do all acts which may be necessary to the exercise of their said jurisdiction,
and may try and determine all cases whereof they may have jurisdiction,
and may pronounce judgment and sentence therein in the same manner
and to the same extent as the circuit court for said counties could in such
cases, if such cases were tried before them, without the intervention of a
jury; provided, however, that if any person, when brought before any
such justice having jurisdiction of the case, shall before triad for 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 on the part
of the State, it shall be the duty of any such justice to commit such alleged
offender for trial in the circuit court for the county in which the offense
was committed at its then session, if it be then in session, or at its next
session, if it be not then in session, and to return said commitment or
recognizance, with the names and residences of the witnesses for the prose-
cution endorsed thereon, forthwith to the clerk of the said court; and the
justice before whom the case is tried shall inform the person charged of
his right to a jury trial.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, see. 94. 1884, ch. 510.

173. Constables in the said counties shall be entitled to the fees pre-
scribed by law for the particular services rendered by them under the pre-
ceding section; and the said justices shall be entitled to charge for their
respective services in said criminal cases the following fees: For issuing
each State writ, twenty-five cents; for summoning all the witnesses on
both sides in any case, fifty cents; for each trial, one dollar; for every
commitment, twenty-five cents; for every release, twenty-five cents; for
taking recognizances in each case reported to the circuit court, twenty-five
cents each; for each attachment for contempt, twenty-five cents.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 95. 1884, ch. 510.

174. The aforesaid fees of said constables and justices for said counties
shall be taxed against and paid by the party against whom judgment shall