3450 ARTICLE 16.

toll bars, trading stamps, female sitters, selling of intoxicating liquors,
gambling, wife beating, deserting of wife or child, disorderly houses, car-
rying of concealed weapons, maliciously destroying property, unlawful
hunting, gaming, care and protection of minors, Sabbath breaking, and
all actions for the recovery of any fines, penalty or forfeiture under the
laws of the State, within the limits of said Montgomery County, and all
other violations of law, that are classed or specified as misdemeanors, now
in existence or hereafter to be created by law, including all violations of
any ordinance, of any incorporated town in Montgomery County; pro-
vided, however, that said justice shall not have any jurisdiction in cases
of felony charged in any warrant or indictment, except for the purpose
of arrest, commitment for a hearing, commitment for the action of the
Grand Jury.

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; may
hear 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 Montgomery County could in such

cases if said cases were tried before said Court without the investigation

of a jury; provided further, that said justice shall have the power in any
and all cases to suspend the operation of any sentence for such time as
he may see fit or may indefinitely postpone said sentence. That if any
person when brought before said justice having jurisdiction of the case,
shall before the trial of 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 upon the part of the State, it shall be the duty
of the said justice to commit such alleged offender for trial in the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, at its then session, if it be in session, or
its next session if it be not then in session, and return said commitment or
recognizance, with the name and names and residence of the witnesses
for the prosecution endorsed thereon, forthwith to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court, and the said justice shall inform the person charged of his right
to a jury trial and on receipt of the recognizance sent up by the justice the
clerk shall place the same on the Appeal Docket and issue a subpoena
for the witnesses named by the justice and the case shall be tried on the
information or warrant as if on appeal. In all cases after jury trial is
waived, in which any person is tried and committed before said Police
Justice and sentenced by him to any imprisonment other than imprison-
ment in default of payment of fines of ten dollars or under and costs or
to any fine of over ten dollars exclusive of costs he may within ten days
after sentence, exclusive of the day of sentence, pray an appeal to the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County upon waiving his right to plead
on the trial of said appeal in said Circuit Court, his former jeopardy re-
sulting from him, his or her said trial and conviction before said justice,
no formal waiver of said right, to plead under this section to said Circuit
Court shall be construed as a waiver of said right to plead said former
jeopardy and in the event of such appeal being so prayed the said justice