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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 485.

AN ACT to add certain sections after section ninety

of article thirty of the Code of Public General

Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments," to be

numbered as sections ninety A and ninety B of

said article.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the following sections shall

Sections add-

be added after section ninety of article thirty of the

ed.

Code of Public General Laws, title "Crimes and

Punishments," and be numbered and lettered as sec-

tions ninety A and ninety B of that article.

90 A. Any person who may commit any indicta-

able offence on a steamboat or railroad train within

the State of Maryland may be presented, indicted,

tried and convicted in any county or city from, to or

May be pre-
sented, &c.

through which the said boat or train may run, and
on arrest be taken before, and in case of bailable

offences be held to bail by any justice of the peace

in any such county or city, but such presentment,
indictment and trial shall be in the same county and

city in which said justice of the peace shall be.

Jurisdiction
of justice.

90. B Any justice of the peace in any county or
city from, through or to which any steamboat or rail-
road train may run, shall have jurisdiction of all
offences cognizable by justices of the peace, when

the same shall have been committed on such boat or

train.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1880.