5282 ARTICLE 24.

action only, shall be misdemeanors, and all such misdemeanors shall be
indictable or they may be tried before any justice of the peace for Wor-
cester County; provided, that any defendant or defendants in such cases
shall, before the trial, be notified of his right to a jury trial, and in any
such case the State of Maryland shall be the plaintiff, and the State'3
Attorney for said county and the defendant or defendants therein shall
respectively possess the right to have the case removed to the Circuit
Court for said county where they can have a jury trial and the justice

of the peace or the Circuit Court may in all cases amend the warrant so
that the offense intended to be charged may be duly set forth; provided,
further, that if the defendant be found guilty and adjudged to pay a fine
or to be imprisoned he may appeal to the Circuit Court for Worcester
County, on recognizance at any time within ten days from the trial, and
the State may also appeal in any case upon order of the State's Attorney.
And said justice of the peace shall have power to issue all process neces-
sary to exercise such jurisdiction, and where jury trial is waived they
may try and determine all such cases and pronounce judgment and sen-
tence therein, and they shall have power to approve the sureties of any
recognizance entered into upon appeal from their decision.

1927, ch. 446, sec. 279A.

223. In addition to the powers already possessed and not in limitation
thereof the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City shall have power and
authority to make such by-laws and to pass such ordinances not contrary
to law and in conformity with this charter as they may deem necessary
for the good government of the said town for the following purposes to
wit: (1) For the erection and maintenance of houses of correction and
for the confinement of criminals, hospital or pest houses within the limits

of the town, and for the regulation and government of the same. (2) For

erecting and maintaining bridges. (3) For establishing, maintaining and
regulating an adequate police force. (4) To regulate the location and
management of starch factories, glue factories, renderies, tallow chandlers,
bone factories, soap factories, fertilizer factories, hide houses, tanneries,

slaughter houses, livery stables, foundries and all other establishments
the business or trade of which may become noxious or injurious to public

comfort and health; to prohibit the erection of such buildings or the
continuance of such noxious or injurious operations therein. (5) To pre-
sent the deposit of any unwholesome substance, either on private or public
property; to compel its removal to designated places, and to require slops,

garbage, ashes and other substance of unwholesome material to be re-
moved to designated places, or to require the occupants of premises to
place it conveniently for removal. (6) To compel the occupants of any
premises, building or outhouses situate in said town when the same may
have become filthy or unwholesome, to abate or cleanse the same, and
to authorize the same to be done by the proper officers, and assess the
expense thereof against such property. (7) To regulate or prohibit the

interment of bodies and to authorize the removal of bodies now or here-