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or poison on the waters of the Chesapeake bay, and not within the body
of any county, the offender, his aiders, abettors and comforters, or any
person accessory thereto, shall be tried in the court within whose jurisdic-
tion such county lies where the death happened, or the stroke or poison
was given.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 543. 1912, sec. 486. 1904, sec. 432. 1888, sec. 280. 1807, ch. 165, sec. 1.

1809, ch. 138, sec. 19.

630. Any person who shall commit any crime, offense or misdemeanor
upon the waters of the Chesapeake bay, within the limits of this State,
and without the body of any county thereof, and all aiders, abettors, com-
forters and accessories thereof and thereto, may be indicted and tried in
any court of this State having jurisdiction of similar crimes, offenses and
misdemeanors, of the county in which he may be arrested, or into which
he may be first brought.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 544. 1912, sec. 487. 1904, sec. 433. 1888, sec. 281. 1880, ch. 485.

631. Any person who may commit any indictable offense on a steam-
boat or railroad train within the State of Maryland may be presented, in-
dicted, tried and convicted in any county or city from, to or through which
the said boat or train may run, and on arrest be taken before, and in case
of bailable offenses, be held to bail by any justice of the peace in any such
county or city; but such presentment, indictment and trial shall be in the
same county and city in which such justice of the peace shall be.
This section applied in overruling a plea to jurisdiction. Taylor v. State, 79 Md. 135.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 545. 1912, sec. 488. 1908, ch. 408.

632. Any person who may commit any crimes, felony or misdemeanor,
on or at the boundary or divisional line between any of the counties in this
State, or so near thereto or where the exact location of such boundary is
so uncertain as to render it doubtful in which county the offense was
committed, then the county which first assumes jurisdiction by issuing
process for the arrest and prosecution of the offender shall have jurisdic-
tion to charge, present, indict, try, convict and sentence; and in such case
it shall be only necessary for the State to establish the venue alleged in
the information, warrant, or indictment, by proving that the offense was
at or on the boundary of the county wherein the accused is being tried,
or was so near thereto or the location of the boundary is so uncertain as to
render it doubtful in which county the crime was committed.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 546. 1912, sec. 489. 1908, ch. 487.

633.¹ The jurisdiction of every county bounded at any point by navi-
gable waters shall extend from the shore to the inside of the channel, which
shall be regarded to be the center of said waters, except where said waters
adjoin neighboring States, in which case the jurisdiction of said counties
shall continue to the ultimate limits of the State at the place in question;
provided, however, that nothing in this or the two following sections shall
be construed as changing such rights as the State of Maryland may have
on or under such waters.

¹This section and the two following ones are identical with art. 75, secs. 161-163.