3094 ARTICLE 14.

such extra constables not exceeding $2.00 per day, when such individual
contractor, company or corporation are engaged in such work or enter-
prises whereby disorderly and dangerous persons are drawn into the
county, and the regular constables now provided for are unable to pre-
serve the peace and order when such work is being done, and the con-
stables so appointed shall have all the police powers of a constable of How-
ard county as now provided by law or hereafter provided. Before the
appointment of such extra constable or constables as herein provided for,
the County Commissioners aforesaid shall give notice of such individual,
contractor, company or corporation of the necessity of the appointment of
such extra constable or constables, and when so appointed the services of
said constable or constables shall be paid for by the individual, contractor,
company or corporation carrying on operations or work rendering neces-
sary the appointment of same; the amount per diem to be paid for serv-
ices, and when and to whom to be paid to be determined by the County
Commissioners aforesaid, and on failure to pay for the services aforesaid
suit may be maintained at any time by the County Commissioners in the
Circuit Court of the county or before any justice of the peace thereof in
the name of such constable after failure of the designated individual, con-
tractor, company or corporation to pay the order or warrant given by said
Commissioners for services.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 14, sec. 91. 1884, ch. 510.

203. The several justices of the peace of Howard, Dorchester, Caro-
line, Calvert, Charles, Harford, Kent, Garrett, Montgomery, Prince
George's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, Anne
Arundel and Allegany 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 State, 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
correction; all of which acts or omissions are hereby declared to be crimi-
nal offences; 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 inten-
vention of a jury; provided, however, that if any person, when brought