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within the limits of the First Precinct of the Second District, and the said
police justice for the said First Precinct of the said Second District shall
have cognizance of all criminal offenses committed in the said First Pre-
cinct and of all others which may be brought before him; and in the event
of a warrant being sworn out before any other justice of the peace for
any offense committed in said First Precinct of the said Second District,
it shall be the duty of the justice of the peace before whom such a war-
rant is sworn out to make the same returnable before the said police
justice or one of the justices of the peace of the City of Annapolis, for
hearing and trial.

Queen v. State, 116 Md. 678.

1908, ch. 524, sec. 172D. 1914 Code, sec. 2'63.

350. Whenever any person shall be arrested in said first precinct of the
said Second District upon any criminal charge or for violation of any law
of this State, whether such arrest is made without a writ or is made under
a warrant issued by any justice of the peace of the said Second District,
it shall be the duty of such officer making such arrest, or in whose custody
the person so arrested may be, to take the person so arrested before the
said police justice or one of the justices of the peace of the City of
Annapolis for hearing or trial.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 173. 1892, ch. 334. 1914 Code, sec. 264.

351. No justice of the peace or constable appointed for any other dis-
trict of said county shall have or exercise any civil or criminal jurisdic-
tion or function of any kind in said City of Annapolis, nor shall they
have any jurisdiction over the citizens of Annapolis by issuing or serving
process in any civil action against any citizen or corporation of said city
nor have any criminal jurisdiction of offences or violations of law com-
mitted in said city either by issuing warrants of arrest or serving process
of any kind.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 174. 1914 Code, sec. 265.

352. The justices of the peace in and for Anne Arundel, Dorchester,
Kent, Caroline, Calvert, Carroll, Queen Anne's, Prince George's, Har-
ford, Charles and Worcester Counties, shall have jurisdiction over and
may take cognizance of all actions of assault and battery in which the
damages claimed do not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars; and also
criminal jurisdiction in all cases of assault and battery committed in
said counties, unless it shall appear to the said justices of the peace, upon
the hearing of the case, that the said assault and battery was committed
with intent to kill.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 175. 1914 Code, sec. 266.

353. In all such cases before the justices of the peace in and for the
counties above named, either party shall be allowed an appeal to the
Circuit Court for the county in which the offence was committed, where