GARRETT COUNTY. 2777

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 punisable under the laws
of this State, within their said jurisdiction by any pecuniary fine or pen-
alty or by imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland House of Correction;
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 trial for the
alleged offence pray a jury trial, or if the State's attorney for said county
shall, before the trial of such alleged offence, 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
offence 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 commit-
ment 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 before whom the case is tried shall inform the person
charged of his right to a jury trial.

See 1929 Supplement to Annotated Code, Art. 52, sec. 6.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12. sec. 137. 1884, ch. 510.

243. 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. 12, sec. 138. 1884, ch. 510.

244. The aforesaid fees of said constables and justices for said counties
shall be taxed against and paid by the party against whom judgment shall
be rendered, unless he be discharged therefrom by due course of law; if
such party against whom judgment is rendered is unable to pay the same,
such fees shall be paid by the county wherein said judgment was ren-
dered; and all fines and penalties received by any justice under the pro-
visions of section 242 shall be accounted for and wholly paid, without
abatement or deduction therefrom by such justice, to the county commis-
sioners of the county wherein they are collected, for the use of said coun-
ty; and no part of any fine or penalty enforced or collected under said
section shall be paid to any informer.