DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2215
the justice before whom the complaint is about to be made may issue a
subpoena for and compel the attendance of any witness, in order that he
may be able to obtain a full and proper information.
The Commissioners shall have full power and authority to pass any
ordinance or ordinances for promoting the execution, carrying out and
enforcing of the provisions of this section
See 1929 Supplement to Annotated Code, Art. 56, secs. 267-273, for general law.
MUNICIPAL OFFENSES.
1900, ch. 339, sub-sec. AU.
100. The violation of any provision under and belonging to the sub-
title "Cambridge," as a subtitle of Article 10 aforesaid; any violation of
any ordinance passed by the Commissioners of said town shall be a mis-
demeanor, and all such misdemeanors may be tried before any justice of
the peace of Election District No. 7 of said county, and of any election
district thereof which adjoins or borders on said Election District No. 7;
provided, that any defendant or defendants in such cases shall before the
trial be notified of his right to a jury trial, and in any such case the
State's Attorney for said county and the defendant or defendants therein
shall respectively possess a right to have the case removed to the Circuit
Court for said county, where they can have a jury trial; provided further,
that the State's Attorney for said county or the defendant or defendants
may respectively remove a case from any justice of the peace that has
charge thereof to another justice of the peace for trial, and a case re-
moved shall stand for hearing on the eighth day from the date of removal,
unless such day falls on Sunday, then it shall stand for trial on the day
following; but the same party shall not be entitled to more than one re-
moval; provided, further, such cases shall be tried on the warrant before
the justice or in the Circuit Court aforesaid, unless the said State's Attor-
ney elects to file a charge in the nature of an indictment, and the State's
Attorney may file such charge in the Circuit Court, when he has not done
so before a justice, either when removed to said court for a jury trial or
on appeal, and the justice or the Circuit Court may amend the warrant
when the case is to be tried thereof, so that the offense intended to be
charged may be duly set forth; provided further, that the defendant, if
found guilty and adjudged to pay a fine or be imprisoned, may appeal
to the said Circuit Court on recognizance within ten days after the pay-
ment is entered for his appearance in said court.
AUTHOEITY TO ISSUE BONDS.
1900, ch. 339, sub-sec. AV.
101. For the purpose of paying the present outstanding debts of Cam-
bridge, and after all such debts have been paid, for the purpose of build-
ing an addition to the engine-house, and after the debts have been paid
and the addition to the engine-house has been built and paid for, then for
building or laying down other and further sewers in said town, the Com-
missioners of Cambridge are authorized and empowered to issue bonds,
the aggregate amount whereof shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand
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