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ficient proof shown to the court that the person imprisoned is
unable to pay the aid fine and costs; and provided also, that if
the said fine and costs are more than ten and less than fifty
dollars, the person so imprisoned shall be discharged from
custody at the end of sixty days from the imposition thereof, if
no imprisonment be ordered by the court, or at the end of sixty
days from and after the expiration of the time for which said
person has been ordered to be imprisoned, on proof shown of his
inability to pay said fine and costs; and provided also, that if
the said fine and costs exceed the sum of fifty dollars, the person
so imprisoned shall be discharged from custody at the end of six
months from the imposition thereof, or from the expiration of
the term for which he was ordered to be imprisoned, on proof
shown of his inability to pay.

1880, ch. 211.

311. When any fine or penalty is imposed by any act of
assembly of this State, or by any ordinance of any incorporated
city or town in this State, enacted in pursuance of sufficient
authority, for the doing of any act forbidden to be done by such
act of assembly or ordinance, or for omitting to do any act re-
quired to be done by such act of assembly or ordinance, the
doing of such act, or the omission to do such act, shall be deemed
to be a criminal offence; such offence, in the city of Baltimore,
shall be prosecuted by the arrest of the offender for such offence,
and by holding him to appear in or committing him for trial in
the criminal court of Baltimore, at the Saturday sessions of said
court, which said court shall have jurisdiction in the said cases,
and shall proceed to try or dispose of the same in the same man-
ner as other criminal cases triable at the Saturday sessions of said
court may be tried or proceeded with, or disposed of, or such
offence may be prosecuted by indictment in such court; such
offences in any county of this State shall be prosecuted by the
arrest of the offender for such offence, and by holding him to
bail to appear in or committing him for trial in the circuit court
for the county in which such offence was committed, or by in-
dictment in the circuit court for such county for such offence.
If any person shall be adjudged guilty of any such offence by any
court having jurisdiction in the premises, he shall be sentenced