HOWARD COUNTY.

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tion, and may try and determine all cases whereof he may have jurisdic-
tion, and may pronounce judgment and sentence therein in the same man-
ner and to the same extent as the circuit court for said county could do
in such cases, if such cases were tried before said court without the inter-
vention 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 trial of such alleged offence, 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 the said offender to bail to appear for
trial in the circuit court for the county at its then session, if it be in
session, or at its next session, if it be not in session, and to return said
commitment or recognizance, with the names and residences of the wit-
nesses 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.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 14, sec. 98. 1882, ch. 450.

210. State's attorneys and justices of the peace having knowledge of
any previous conviction of any person accused of violating said sections,
in preparing warrants, presentments and indictments, shall allege such
previous conviction therein; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the
circuit court to furnish such information to the State's attorney and grand
jury; but it shall not be necessary to set forth particularly in any such
presentment or indictment the record of a former conviction, but it shall be
sufficient to allege briefly that said person, corporation, company or asso-
ciation, had been convicted of a violation of any of said sections; and any
such indictment or proceeding may be amended at any stage of the proceed-
ings before final judgment, and as a matter of right.

ELLICOTT CITY.*

1892, ch. 281, sec. 98A.

211. No person after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, shall sell or barter, offer for sale, barter or keep for sale or
barter in that part of the second election district of Howard County, in-
cluded within the corporate limits of Ellicott City any spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or lager beer except as hereinafter provided.

State v. Mellor, 140 Md. 364.

1892, ch. 281, sec. 98B.

212. Any person desiring to obtain a license to sell spirituous or fer-
mented liquors or lager beer in that part of the second election district of
Howard County included within the corporate limits of Ellicott City, shall
file an application in writing with the clerk of the Circuit Court for

*Ch. 281, Acts of 1892, sec. 1, repealed secs. 206-210 as to Ellicott City.