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before said clerk, and certified by him on said petition or on a paper
annexed thereto; and any false swearing as to any matters required herein
to be set forth in any such petition shall be held to be perjury; but such
license issued and endorsed shall have no effect to restrain the person
licensed in the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise which he could
have heretofore sold under such a traders' license, except the liquors men-
tioned in Section 289; and if any one who shall have obtained a license
as herein directed shall sell any such liquor, except as by this subtitle of
this article allowed, he shall, upon conviction, be subject to the punish-
ment inflicted by the said section, and in addition thereto, for the second
offence, his license shall be by the court declared to be void; any one desir-
ing to obtain a license as a pharmacist and druggist, such as is provided
for in this section, for the year commencing on the first day of May, shall
file a petition and certificate to a judge of the said court, as provided for
in this section, and the same proceedings shall be had thereupon as therein
prescribed; said petition may be filed either upon or after the first day
of May or before; and if before, then it must be filed within thirty days
before said day; but if any order of the judge to issue such license shall
be filed before the first day of May, the clerk shall suspend issuing the
same until such day.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 199. 1882, chs. 244 and 307.

294. All prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this subtitle
of this article, and which are hereby declared to be criminal offences, may
be either upon presentment and indictment or by trial before a justice
of the peace, who shall have jurisdiction original and concurrent with the
circuit court for said county; and the said justice shall have power to issue
all process and do all acts which may be necessary to the exercise of his
said jurisdiction, and may try 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 said county
could do in such cases, as if such cases were tried before said court with-
out the intervention of a jury; provided, however, that if any person, when
brought before any such justice having jurisdiction of the case, shall, be-
fore trial for the alleged offence, pray a jury trial, or if the State's Attor-
ney 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 any 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 or next
session, and to return said commitment, or recognizance, with the names
and residences of the witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon, forth-
with 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. 18, sec. 200. 1882, chs. 244 and 307.

295. State's Attorneys and justices of the peace having knowledge of
any previous conviction of any person accused of violating the provisions
of this subtitle of this article, in preparing warrants, presentments and