882 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

cases in which search warrants are issued in accordance with
the law; and if any one or more of any of such articles above
mentioned, or any parts of the same, shall be found in, upon
or about the premises so designated the officer executing such
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 violation of section 308, issue his warrant for the arrest
of said person or persons against whom such charge or charges
shall be made and cause him or them (together with such arti-
cles) to be brought before him for trial.

1888, art. 27, sec 206. 1882, ch. 491, sec. 6. 1892, ch. 262. 1902, ch. 245.

311. The several justices of the peace in the respective
counties 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 violation of the provisions of section 308, and such
respective justices shall proceed to hear and determine such
cases when the parties arrested upon charges of such violation
are brought before them, respectively, and to acquit such per-
sons, or to sentence such persons for the offense if convicted
thereof, unless such respective person so charged when so
brought before said justices of the peace, respectively, and
before they are respectively tried, as aforesaid, shall pray a jury
trial. If any person charged with the commission of any one
or more of the several offenses mentioned in section 308,
brought before any justice of the peace, shall pray a jury trial
as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the said justice of the peace
to commit such person for trial, or to hold him to bail to
appear before the criminal court of Baltimore or the circuit
court for the county, as the case may be, and to return the
commitment or the recognizance in such case immediately to
the clerk of said court. And if such person or persons shall be
found to be guilty of the violation of any of the provisions of
sections 306 to 314, the court or justice of the peace imposing
the punishment herein prescribed shall also award possession
to the owner of all of the property involved in such violation.

1902, ch. 245, sec 206 A.

312. The requiring, taking or accepting of any deposit for
any purpose upon any keg, box, tray, carrier, crate, fount,