ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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union chapel, unless for medicinal purposes, and then only upon

the prescription of a regular physician.

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

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 369.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section six

hundred and fifteen, of article four, of the Code of Public

Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-title " Justice of the

peace and constables."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by tJie General Assembly of Maryland,

That section six hundred and fifteen, of article four, of the Code of

Public Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-title "Justices

In repeal.

of the peace and constables," be and the same is hereby repealed

and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

615. It shall be the duty of each justice of the peace so selected

to sit at any station-house in the city of Baltimore, to hear all

charges made against any person because of the alleged commis-

sion by such person of any criminal offense; it shall be the duty

of each of said justices to examine carefully into every such

charge to the end, that while justice shall be done no person shall

be subjected to costs or imprisonment without sufficient cause ;

each of said justices of the peace shall have power to hear, try and

determine the case of every person who may be arrested and brought

before him in the said city of Baltimore charged with being a

tramp, who is or may be punishable as such under section two

Powers.

hundred and seventy-five and two hundred and seventy-six, of

article twenty-seven, of the Code of Public Genaral Laws, title

"Crimes and punishments," and to hear, try and determine the

cases of all persons arrested and brought before him charged with

any offense specified in section sixty-seven or sixty-eight of the

same article, or in sections eight hundred and ninety-four, eight

hundred and ninety-seven of this article, sub-title "Vagrant

children," and to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons

brought before him charged with assault and battery, who after

the preliminary hearing of the charge not being able to give bail

for appearance to answer such charge at the criminal court shall,

declare a willingness to waive the right of jury trial and to abide

by the determination of his case by said justice, and to hear, try

and determine all charges of carrying concealed weapons, and all

prosecutions or criminal proceedings for any act done or omitted

to be done in the city of Baltimore, the doing of which act or the