3000 ARTICLE 13.

liquors (as the case may be) in Harford County, for a period of time with-
in which such violation has occurred and to prove that he or it has regis-
tered his or its business for said period' as such dealer with the collector
of internal revenue for the district of which Harford County shall form
a part, and that he or it made application to said collector to be so regis-
tered; and it shall be lawful for the State in such case to offer in evidence
said internal revenue law relating to said special taxes, and the payment
of said special tax upon, and the registering of his or its said business,
may be proved by a certificate of said collector, or any of his deputies,
or by the sworn testimony of him, or any of them; and a copy of the
application of any person, house, company, association or body corporate,
for registry, under said revenue laws, made and attested by said collector,
or any of his deputies, shall be prima facie proof of such application, and
the payment of said tax and the application for such registry shall be
prima facie evidence that the party so paying and applying is engaged
in the sale of intoxicating liquors within the limits of Harford County.

Guy v. State, 90 Md. 35.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 423. 1929, ch. 90, sec. 423.

419. All fines imposed under the sub-title of this Article shall be paid
to the Board of Education of Harford County, for the use of the public-
schools in said county.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 424.

420. All prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this sub-title
of this article, which are hereby declared to be criminal offenses, may be
either upon presentment and indictment or by trial before a justice of
the peace, who shall have jurisdiction, original and concurrent with the
Circuit Court for said county, and the said justice shall have power to
issue all process, and to do all acts which may be necessary to the exercise
of his said jurisdiction, and may try and determine all cases whereof he
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
county could do in such cases, ar if such cases were tried before said court
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 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 justice
to commit such alleged offender for trial, or to hold the said offender to
bail to appear for trial in the Circuit Court for the said county 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
name and residence of the witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon,
forthwith to the clerk of said court; and the justice before whom the case
is tried shall inform the person charged of his right to a jury trial.