1014 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 501

place in not more than thirty days if such court is then in
session, and if it be not in session, within thirty days from
the date when it is next in session. If at the time appointed
for trial the returns have not been properly made, or for other
sufficient cause, the trial may be postponed to a further date
not more than fifteen days beyond said thirty days.

(j) DEFINITIONS. The word "liquor", when used in this
sub-title, unless the same be inconsistent with the context,
shall be construed to include the vessels containing the same;
the phrase "means used for the sale of the same", shall include
all furniture, implements, equipment, instrumentalities, or
paraphernalia of a barroom or drinking saloon or any part
of same, and any United States Internal Revenue tax receipts
effective for the period of time covering the alleged offense,
and to include also any conveyance or vehicle; the word "place"
shall be construed to include any edifice, apartment, room,
tent, boat, wagon, conveyance, motor vehicle, aeroplane, or
any open air location.

(k) PRIVATE RESIDENCE. Any private residence or any part
thereof which is a place of public resort, or is used as a store
or shop, or is utilized as a place for keeping, depositing, storing,
hiding, secreting, handling, exchanging, distributing, furnish-
ing or delivering any intoxicating liquor in any quantity what-
ever intended for sale or disposition otherwise contrary to
this Article or contrary to law, shall not be accepted or held
as a private residence for the purpose of this Article.

(1) PROSECUTIONS. All prosecutions for violations of this
Article which are hereby declared to be misdemeanors, may be
either upon presentment or indictment or by trial before
the Trial Magistrate of the County, who shall have jurisdiction,
original and concurrent, with the Circuit Court for the said
County, and the said Trial Magistrate shall have power to issue
all process, and to do all acts which may be necessary to the
exercise of his said jurisdiction, and may try and determine all
cases whereof he may have jurisdiction, and may pronounce
judgment and sentence therein in the same manner and to the
same extent as the Circuit Court for the said County could do
in such cases if such cases were tried before said Court without
the intervention of a jury; provided, however, that if any
person, when brought before the Trial Magistrate shall, before
trial for the alleged offense pray a jury trial, or if the State's
Attorney for said County shall, before trial of such alleged
offense, pray a trial by jury on the part of the State, it shall be
the duty of the Trial Magistrate to commit such alleged
offender for trial, or to hold him to bail to appear for trial in
the Circuit Court of the said County if it be in session, or at