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provisions or sections shall not be construed as invalidating the entire
Act.*

JURIDICTION.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 55. 1870, ch. 140.

113. The justices of the peace for Wicomico county shall have juris-
diction over and may take cognizance of actions of assault and battery,
where the damages claimed do not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars;
and also criminal jurisdiction in all cases of assault and battery com-
mitted in said county, unless it shall appear to the said justice 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. 23, sec. 56. 1870, ch. 140.

114. In all cases under the preceding section, either party shall be
allowed an appeal to the circuit court for Wicomico county, where they
shall be tried de novo; and all such appeals shall be taken in such man-
ner as is now provided for by law in other cases of appeals from judg-
ments of justices of the peace.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 57. 1884, ch. 510. 1890, ch. 428.

115. The several justices of the peace of Wicomico county shall have,
in addition to the jurisdiction which they now possess, and which may be
conferred upon them by or under the laws of this State, jurisdiction con-
current with that exercised by the circuit court for said county in all
cases of assault, without any felonious intent, and in all cases of assault
and battery, and in all cases of petit larceny when the value of the prop-
erty stolen does not exceed the sum of five dollars, and in all misde-
meanors, not punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, which may be
committed within their respective jurisdictions; and shall have jurisdic-
tion in all prosecutions or proceedings for the recovery of any penalty for-
doing, or omitting to do any act, the doing of which, or the omission to do
which, is made punishable under the laws of this State, within their said
jurisdiction, by any pecuniary fine or penalty, or by imprisonment in jail
or in the Maryland house of correction; all of which acts or ommissions
are hereby declared to be criminal offenses; and the said justices shall
have power to issue all process, and to do all acts which may be necessary
to the exercise of their said jurisdiction, and may try and determine all
cases whereof they 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 in such cases, if such cases were tried
before them without the intervention of a jury; provided, however, that
if any person, when brought before any such justice having jurisdiction
of the case, shall before trial for the alleged offense, pray a jury trial, or

*Sec. 3, ch. 329, 1927, and sec. 3, ch. 19, 1929, repealed all Acts inconsistent there-
with.