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sary and advisable, in his discretion, hold hearings and trials in the
election district where the particular offense to be heard or tried was
committed, at a place in such election district to be selected by said
Police Justice, the use thereof to be paid for by the County Commissioners
of said County in a sum not to exceed one dollar for any hearing or trial,
but this discretionary power shall not, in any event, be exercised to accom-
modate the personal convenience or desires of any person or persons.

1929, ch. 69, sec. 4.

270. The said Police Justice herein provided shall have no civil juris-
diction; but shall have the jurisdiction of and perform the duties of cor-
oner and shall have exclusive criminal jurisdiction concurrent with that
exercised by the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County, in all cases of
assault and battery, cruelty to animals, vagrancy, drunkenness and dis-
orderly conduct, disturbance of the public peace, wrongfully opening or
breaking the seal of any letter not addressed to the party, selling deadly
weapons to minors, obscene publications, blasphemy, destroying bounded
or boundary trees, all charges of violations of health laws, trading stamps,
female sitters, selling of intoxicating liquors, gambling, wife beating, de-
serting.of wife or child, disorderly houses, carrying of concealed weapons,
maliciously destroying property, unlawful hunting, gaming, care and pro-
tecting or 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 Queen Anne's 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 incor-
porated town in Queen Anne's County, subject, however, to the same right
of appeal in all cases as now exists under the law, and subject to the same
right of election to be tried by a jury, notice of which must be clearly
given by said Police Justice to the party before trial, in all cases pun-
ishable by confinement in the Penitentiary, but with no right of election
to be tried by a jury in any case punishable by a fine, or confinement in
jail or the House of Correction, said requirement to forego the right of
election to be tried by a jury in such cases shall not be construed as barring
the right of appeal to the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's 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 and commitment for the action of the
Grand Jury. And the said Justice shall have the 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 Queen
Anne's 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