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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

by any pecuniary fine or penalty or by imprisonment in jail

or in the Maryland House of Correction, all of which acts

or omissions are hereby declared to be criminal offenses ;

and the said justices shall have power to issue all processes

and to do all acts which may be necessary to the exercise of

their said jurisdiction, and may try and determine all cases

whereof they may have jurisdiction, and may pronounce

judgment and sentence therein in the same manner and to

the same extent, as the Circuit Court for said counties could

in such cases, if said cases were tried before said Circuit

Courts without the intervention of a jury; provided, how-

ever, that if any person when brought before any such

justice having jurisdiction of the case, shall before trial for

the alleged offense pray a jury trial, or if the State's

attorney for said county shall, before the trial of such

alleged offense pray a jury trial on the part of the State, it

shall be the duty of any such justice to commit such

alleged offender for trial in the Circuit Court for the county

in which the offense was committed at its then session, if it

be then in session, or at its next sesion, if it be not then in

session, and to return said commitment or recognizance with

the uames and residences of the witnesses for the prosecu-

tion endorsed thereon, forthwith to the clerk of the said

court ; and the justice before whom the case is tried shall

inform the person charged of his right to a jury trial, and

on receiving the recognizance sent up by the justice, the

clerk shall place the same on the appeal docket and issue

snbpoana for the witnesses named by the justice, and the

case shall be tried on the information or the warrant as if

on appeal ; and if on waiver of jury trial before the justice,

and trial before him either party shall feel aggrieved, there

shall be a right of appeal to the Circuit Court for the

county in which the alleged offense is charged to have been

committed ; in case the judgment of the justice of the peace

is against the accused he shall appeal, enter into recog-

nizance with security to be approved by the justice of the

peace, in every such case the appeal shall be taken prayed

within ten days after judgment entered.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts,

Repeal
and effect.

inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, and that this

act shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.