1624 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

and the said justice shall have power to issue all process, and to
do all acts which may be necessary to the exercise of his said
jurisdiction, and may try and determine all cases whereof he may
have jurisdiction, and may pronounce judgment and sentence to
the same extent and manner as the circuit court for said county
could do in such cases, if they were tried before said court with-
out the intervention of a jury; provided, however, that if any
person when brought before any justice, shall, before trial, pray
a jury trial, or if the State's attorney for said county shall pray a
jury trial for the alleged offence, on the part of the State, it shall
be the duty of said justice to commit such offender for trial, or
hold hirn to bail to appear for trial at the next circuit court for
said county, or its next session, if it be in session, and to return
the commitment or recognizance, with the names and residence of
the witnesses for the prosecution endorsed therein, forthwith to
the clerk; and it shall be the duty of said justice to inform the
person charged, of his right to a jury trial in all cases.

MESSENGER OF CIRCUIT AND ORPHANS' COURT.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 16, sec. 74.

256. The messenger of the circuit court and orphans' court
for said county, shall receive an annual salary of fifty dollars.

NAVIGATION OF PATUXENT AND POTOMAC RIVERS.

1870, ch. 235.

257. All stationary or permanent weirs or hedges in the west-
ern branch of the Patuxent river, or on the eastern branch of the
Potomac river and its tributaries in Prince George's county, are
declared nuisances, and may be abated as such by any person.

Ibid.

258. If any person shall place or make any stationary or
permanent weir or hedge in the said branches, or their tributaries,
contrary to the provisions of the preceding section, he shall forfeit

the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered before any justice
of the peace of said county, one-half to the informer or person
who may sue for the same, the other half to be paid to the justice