478 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

eral laws, except as aforesaid, to be committed or held to bail for
trial before the criminal court of Baltimore.

1882, ch. 219

616. In all criminal prosecutions or proceedings which, under
the provisions of the preceding section, may be heard, tried and
determined before a justice of the peace sitting at a station-house
in the city of Baltimore, it shall be the duty of such justice of
the peace before whom such case is tried, in the event of the
conviction of the accused at the said trial, to impose upon the
said accused so convicted, the fine, or the fine and punishment
prescribed in case of such conviction by the act of assembly of
this State, or by the ordinance of the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, for the violation of which the accused was so tried.
Any person sentenced to the payment of any fine, and to the
payment of the costs of his prosecution, who shall not forth-
with pay the said fine and the costs of said prosecution,
shall be committed by such justice of the peace to the jail of
Baltimore city until such fine and costs are paid, or until the said
person shall be discharged from such jail by due course of law.

Ibid.

617. If any person charged with any of the offences referred
to in the two preceding sections, when brought before any justice
of the peace sitting at a station-house in the city of Baltimore,
before the beginning of his actual trial for such offence, shall
pray a jury trial, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace
to commit such alleged offender for trial before the criminal
court of Baltimore, or' to hold the said alleged offender to good
and sufficient bail to appear for trial before the criminal court of
Baltimore at its next sitting, and to indorse upon said commitment
or recognizance the names and residences of the witnesses for
the prosecution; and such commitment or recognizance so in.
dorsed shall be returned forthwith to the clerk of the said
criminal court of Baltimore.

1876, ch. 28.

618. The justice of the peace, so selected to sit at any station
house, may be changed from time to time by the governor, at