190 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

persons or body corporate is or are making use of any one or
more such fount, bottle, keg, jug, vessel, bottled beer crate, or
box belonging to said owner or owners, for any of the purposes
declared to be unlawful by section two hundred and three of this
article, or has the same in possession on premises occupied, used
or controlled by such person or persons or body corporate, for
any of the purposes so declared to be unlawful, the said justice
of the peace may issue his search warrant to any officer of the
law to whom such warrant may properly be directed, and cause
the premises designated in the warrant to be searched, as in other
cases in which search warrants are issued in accordance with law,
and if any one or more of such kegs, founts, bottles, jugs, vessels,
bottled beer crates, or boxes, shall be found in, upon or about
the premises so designated, the officer executing the said search
warrant shall thereupon report the same under his oath to the
said justice of the peace, who shall thereupon, upon said report,
and upon the oath of any person or persons charging any viola-
tion of the provisions of section two hundred and three of this
article, issue his warrant for the arrest of the said person or per-
sons against whom such charge or charges shall be made and
cause him or them to be brought before him for trial.

1892, ch. 262.

206. The several justices of the peace in the respective coun-
ties of this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the
circuit courts for their respective counties, and the justices of the
peace selected to sit at the respective station houses in the city of
Baltimore shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Criminal
Court of Baltimore in the case of persons arrested for the viola-
tion of the provisions of section two hundred and three of this
article, and such respective justices shall proceed to hear and
determine such cases when the parties arrested upon charges of
said violation are brought before them, respectively, and to
acquit such persons or to sentence such persons for the offenses if
convicted thereof, unless such respective persons so charged, when
GO brought before said justices of the peace, respectively, and
before they are respectively tried as aforesaid, shall pray jury
trial. If any person charged with the commission of any one or
more of the several offenses mentioned in section two hundred