1704 QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY;. [ART. 18.

traders' license, except the liquors mentioned in section 196; and
if any one who shall have obtained a license as herein directed
shall sell any such liquor, except as by this sub-title of this article
allowed, he shall, upon conviction, be subject to the punishment
inflicted by the said section, and in addition thereto, for the
second offence, his license shall be by the court declared to be
void; any one desiring to obtain a license as a pharmacist and
druggist, such as is provided for in this section, for the year com-
mencing on the first day of May, shall file a petition and certifi-
cate to a judge of the said court, as provided for in this section,
and the same proceedings shall be had thereupon as therein
prescribed; said petition may be filed either upon or after the
first day of May or before; and if before, then it must be filed
within thirty days before said day; but if any order of the judge
to issue such license shall be filed before the first day of May, the
clerk shall suspend issuing the same until such day.

1883, ch. 344 1882, ch. 307

199. All prosecutions for violations of the provisions of this
sub-title of this article, and which are hereby declared to be
criminal offences, may be either upon presentment and indictment
or by trial before a justice of the peace, who shall have jurisdic-
tion original and concurrent with the circuit court for said
county; and the said justice shall have power to issue all process
and 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
therein in the same manner and to the same extent as the circuit
court for said county could do in such cases, as if such cases were
tried before said court without the intervention of a jury; pro-
vided, however, that if any person, when brought before any
such justice having jurisdiction of the case, shall, before trial for
the alleged offence, pray a jury trial, or if the State's attorney
for said county shall, before 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, or to hold
the said offender to bail, to appear for trial in the circuit court
for the county at its then or next session, and to return said com-
mitment or recognizance, with the names and residences of the