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or at its next session, if it be not in session, and to return said
commitment or recognizance, with the names and residences of
the witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon, forthwith to-
the clerk of said court; and the justice before whom the case is
brought shall, in every such case, inform the person charged of
Ms right to a jury trial.

1884, ch. 359.

148. State's attorneys and justices of the peace having knowl-
edge of any previous conviction of any person accused of violat-
ing the provisions of sections 144, 145 and 146, in preparing war-
rants, presentments and indictments shall allege such previous
conviction therein; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the
circuit court to furnish such information to the State's attorney
and grand jury, but it shall not be necessary to set forth particu-
larly in any such presentment or indictment the record of a
former conviction, but it shall be sufficient to allege briefly
that said person, corporation, company or association had been
convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of said sections;
and any such indictment or proceeding may be amended at any
stage of the proceeding before final judgment, and as a matter of
right.

1878, ch. 500.

149. The clerk of the circuit court shall not grant a license
to any person to sell spirituous or fermented liquors of any land*
at any place at or within one half mile, in any direction, of the
village of Ashland, in said county; and any person selling any
spirituous or fermented liquors, or any kind of intoxicating drink,
whether of original manufacture or of a mixed character, within
the above described limits, shall, on conviction, be subject to the
same fines and punishments now provided by the code of public
general laws for selling spirituous or fermented liquors with-
out license.

1886, ch. 423.

150. It shall not be lawful for the clerk of the circuit court
to issue a license to any person to sell spirituous or fermented
liquors or lager beer nearer the grounds of Emory Grove Asso-
ciation of Baltimore city, than one mile and a-half, in any direc-
tion; provided, nothing in this section shall be construed to