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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

respective counties, and the justices of the peace se-

lected to sit at the respective station houses in the

city of Baltimore shall have concurrent jurisdiction

with the Criminal Court of Baltimore in the cases

of persons arrested as tramps, and such respective

justices shall proceed to hear and determine such

cases when the parties arrested as tramps are brought
before them respectively, and to acquit such persons

or to sentence them for such offence if convicted,

unless such respective persons so charged, when so

brought before them respectively, ana before they

May pray a

are respectively tried as aforesaid, shall pray a jury

jury trial.

trial. If any person charged with being a tramp,

brought before a justice of the peace selected to sit

at a station house in the city of Baltimore, shall pray

a jury trial as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the

said justice of the peace to commit such person for

Held to bail.

trial, or to hold him to bail to appear before the

Criminal Court of Baltimore on the next succeeding

Saturday of the session of the said court, and to re-

turn the commitment or recognizance in such case to

the clerk of the said court on or before the day next

preceding the next Saturday session of said court,

and if any person charged with being a tramp

brought before a justice of the peace for any county
in this State shall pray a jury trial as aforesaid, it

shall be the duty of the said justice of the peace to

May hold to

commit such person for trial or to hold him to bail

bail.

to appear for trial before the circuit court for the

county in which such person was arrested at the

pending term of said circuit court, if it be then in

session, or at the next term thereof if it be not then in

session. Such respective justices of the peace shall

Witnesses to

endorse upon the commitment or recognizance of any

enter into re-

such person so praying a jury trial the names and

cognizance.

places of residence of the witnesses on behalf of the

prosecution, and shall cause such respective witness-

es to enter into recognizance for their respective ap-

pearance against such person in the court into which

such commitment or recognizance for the appear-

ance of the party charged is returned at the time

prescribed for the appearance of the person so charg-

ed in such court.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from and after the date of its passage, and that