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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; pro-
vided, 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 commitment 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.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 144. 1884, ch. 510.

240. 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 commit-
ment, 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. 15, sec. 145. 1884, ch. 510.

241. 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 or she 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
rendered; and all fines and penalties received by any justice under the
provisions of section 239, 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
county, and no part of any fine or penalty enforced or collected under said
section shall be paid to any informer.

LANDINGS.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 146. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 117.

242. The proceedings for the establishment, making, altering or clos-
ing any public landings in Kent county, shall be in all respects the same as
prescribed by the laws of this State for opening, altering or closing roads.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 147. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 118.

243. No lot or piece of ground condemned for a public landing in Kent
county shall exceed one acre of land in extent.