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be conferred upon them by or under the laws of this State, jurisdiction
concurrent 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 misdemeanors
not punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, which may be com-
mitted within their respective jurisdictions; and shall have jurisdiction
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
to which, is made punishable under the laws of this State, within 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 omissions
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 if
the State's Attorney for said County shall, before the 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 in the Cir-
cuit Court for the County in which the offense was committed at its then
session, if it be then in session, or at its next session, if it be not then
in session, and to return said commitment or recognizance, with the names
and residences of the witness for the prosecution endorsed thereon, forth-
with to the clerk of the 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. 24, sec. 126. 1920 Code, sec. 125.

99. Constables in the said counties shall be entitled to the fees pre-
scribed by law for the particular services rendered by them under the pre-
ceding section; and the said justices shall be entitled to charge for their
respective services in said criminal cases the following fees: For issuing
each State writ, twenty-five cents; for summoning all the witnesses on
both sides in any case, fifty cents; for each trial, one dollar; for every
commitment, twenty-five cents; for every release, twenty-five cents; for
taking rcognizances in each case reported to the Circuit Court, twenty-
five cents each; for each attachment for contempt, twenty-five cents.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 127. 1920 Code, sec. 126.

100. The aforesaid fees of said constables and justices for said coun-
ties shall be taxed against and paid by the party against whom judgment
shall be rendered, unless he or she be discharged therefrom by due course
of law; if such party against whom judgment is rendered is unable to