3922 ARTICLE 17.

enter judgment and impose sentence in all cases in which he is given
jurisdiction under the provisions of this Act, and to enlarge his civil
jurisdiction to two hundred and fifty dollars ($250), and to limit and
confine criminal jurisdiction to the Police Justice except as in this Act
provided, and that the several Justices of the Peace of Prince George's
County other than the Police Justice shall have no criminal jurisdiction
except as herein specifically provided for, but the several Justices of the
Peace of said County shall have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine
any violation of ordinances in any incorporated town in said County, ex-
cept as herein provided, as well as to hear, try and determine violations
of ordinances of any town that may be incorporated subsequent to the
passage of this Act.

1927, ch. 426, sec. 17.

594. All Acts or parts of Acts of any Public General or Public Local
Laws or town ordinances inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are
hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

1927, ch. 426, sec. 18.

595. Should any section of this Act or any part of a section hereof be
declared unconstitutional, the said section or part of section so deemed
and declared to be unconstitutional shall be deemed and taken to be
severable from the balance of said Act, and all the balance of said section
or parts of sections and all the balance of said Act shall be and remain
as a valid and subsisting Act.

1927, ch. 426, sec. 19.

596. Sections 204 and 208 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Licenses," subtitle "Motor Vehicles," and more particu-
larly designated under part five of said Motor Vehicle Law for the purpose
of identification and for repeal, by express reference, are hereby repealed
in so far as the same or either of them are inconsistnt with the provisions
of this Act.

LANDLORD AND TENANT.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 17, sec. 189. 1912 Code, sec. 345.

597. In all cases of renting land in Prince George's, Charles, Calvert,
St. Mary's and Worcester counties wherein a share of the growing crops
shall be reserved as rent, or wherein advances by the landlord shall be
made upon the faith of the crops to be grown, said rent reserved and such
advances made shall be a lien on such crops, which shall not be diverted
by any sale made thereof by the tenant or by any administrator of the
deceased tenant or by the assignment of the tenant in insolvency, or by
the process of law issued against the tenant, provided, that at the time of
said renting the contract under and by which said advances are to be
made, shall be reduced to writing, duly executed and attested by the said
landlord and tenant.