ART. 27.] VAGRANTS AND TRAMPS. 549

months nor more than one year. This section not to apply to
Allegany county.

1880, ch. 31 1888, ch. 274

276. The respective justices of the peace in the respective
counties of this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the

circuit courts for their respective counties, and the justices of the
peace selected to sit at the respective station houses in the city of
Baltimore shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the criminal

court of Baltimore in the cases of persons arrested as tramps;
and such respective justices shall proceed to hear and determine
such cases when the parties arrested as tramps are brought before
them, respectively, and to acquit such persons or to sentence

them for such offence if convicted, unless such respective persons
so charged, when so brought before them, respectively, and before
they are respectively tried as aforesaid, shall pray a jury trial.
If any person charged with being a tramp, brought before a
justice of the peace selected to sit at a station house in the city
of Baltimore, shall pray a jury trial as aforesaid, it shall be the

duty of the said justice of the peace to commit such person for
trial, or to hold him to bail to appear before the criminal court
of Baltimore on the next succeeding Saturday of the session of
the said court, and to return the commitment or recognizance in
such case to the clerk of the said court on or before the day next
preceding the next Saturday session of said court; and if any
person charged with being a tramp, brought before a justice of
the peace for any county in this State, shall pray a jury trial as
aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the said justice of the peace to

commit such person for trial or to hold him to bail to appear for
trial before the circuit court for the county in which such person
was arrested at the pending term of said circuit court, if it be
then in session, or at the next term thereof if it be not then in
session. Such respective justices of the peace shall endorse upon
the commitment or recognizance of any such person so praying a
jury trial, the names and places of residence of the witnesses on
behalf of the prosecution, and shall cause such respective wit-
nesses to enter into recognizance for their respective appearance
against such person in the court into which such commitment or
recognizance for the appearance of the party charged is returned