FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 485.

AN ACT to repeal the act of General Assembly of Mary-

land, passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and

ninety, entitled an act to amend article fifty -two of the

Code of Public General Laws, title "Justices of the

Peace" (except as to the city of Baltimore), by adding a

new section thereto to follow section eleven, and to be

designated as section eleven A, and to be under the new

sub-title "Criminal Jurisdiction," and to re-enact the

said act with amendments so as to except Queen Anne's,

Harford, Talbot and Frederick Counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland. That the act of eighteen hundred and ninety,

chapter six hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to

Repealed

amend article fifty-two of the Code of Public General Laws,

and
re-enacted

title ' Justices of the Peace' " (except as to the city of Balti-

more), by adding a new section thereto to follow section

eleven, and to be designated as section eleven A, and to be

under the new sub-title of "Criminal Jurisdiction," be and

the same is hereby, repealed and re-enacted to read as

follows :

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That article fifty-two of the Code of Public General Laws

is amended by the addition of a section to follow section

Section

eleven and to be numbered as section eleven A, under the

added.

new sub-title of " Criminal Jurisdiction," and to read as

follows :

11 A. The several justices of the peace in the State of

Maryland (except in the city of Baltimore), and in Queen

Anne's, Talbot, Harford and Frederick Counties, shall have

in addition to the jurisdiction which they now possess and

Justices
of the

which may be conferred on them by or under the laws of

Peace-

this State jurisdiction concurrent with that exercised by

Juris-
diction.

the Circuit Courts for the several counties of this State in

all cases of assault without any felonious intent and in all

cases of assault and battery, and in all cases of petit larceny,

when the value of the property stolen does not exceed the

sum of five dollars, and in all misdemeanors not punishable

by confinement in the penitentiary, which may be committed

within their respective jurisdictions; and shall have juris-

diction in all prosecutions or proceedings for the recovery

of any penalty for doing or omitting to do any act, the doing

of which, or the omission to do which is made punishable

under the laws of this State, within their said jurisdiction,