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provided for in this Act, shall be deemed to have been done with intent
to violate the law of said county relating to or prohibiting the sale of
such liquors. Any person, firm or corporation who violates the provi-
sions of this section upon trial and conviction therefor shall be subject
to the fines and penalties hereinbefore provided in Section 279.
1914. ch. 858, sec. 4.
281. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply to the shipment
or delivery to duly licensed pharmacists or druggists to be used in com-
pliance with existing laws and to hospitals in said county, of spirituous
or vinous liquors and alcohol: nor to the delivery to churches or proper
officers thereof of wine in unbroken, packages for sacramental purposes.
1914, ch. 858, sec. 5.
282. All prosecutions for violations of the provisions of the preceding
sections of this Act, which are hereby declared to be criminal offenses,
may be either upon presentment and indictment, or by trial before a
justice of the peace for said county in which the offense is committed, and
jurisdiction original and concurrent with the Circuit Courts for the afore-
said county is hereby given in such cases to the justices of the peace in
and for the aforesaid county in which the said offense is committed and
the said justices of the peace shall have power to issue all process and do
all acts which may be necessary for the exercise of said jurisdiction and
may try and determine all such cases and may pronounce judgment and
sentence therein to the same extent as the Circuit Court for such county
could do in such cases, if such cases were tried before said court without
a jury; provided, however, that if any person when brought before any
such justice having jurisdiction in the case shall, before trial for the
alleged offense, pray a jury trial, or if the state's attorney for the county
shall, before trial of such alleged offense, pray a jury trial on the part 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 Circuit
Court for said county at its then or next session and to return said com-
mitment or recognizance, with the names and residences of the witnesses
for the prosecution endorsed thereon, forthwith to the clerk of the said
court; and the justice of the peace before whom the accused is brought
for trial shall, prior to the beginning of the trial, inform him of his right
to demand a trial by jury. If after trial before a justice of the peace
either party shall feel aggrieved by the judgment of such justice of the
peace, there shall be a right of appeal within ten days to the Circuit Court
for said county.
MINORS.
1910, ch. 448, sec. 1 (p. 716).
283. It shall be lawful for actual residents of Cecil County, in the
State of Maryland, to bring into said county from any part of said State,
or from outside of said State, any child or children in order to place the
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