WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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but shall cause all such offenders against the provi-

sions of said fifty-sixth and thirtieth articles of said

Code of Public General Laws, except as aforesaid,

to be committed or held to bail for trial before the

Criminal Court of Baltimore.

SEC. 626 B. In all criminal prosecutions or pro-

ceedings which under the provisions of this act

may be heard, tried and determined before a justice

of the peace sitting at a station-house in the city of

Baltimore, it shall be the duty of such justice of the

peace before whom such case is tried, in the event

of the conviction of the accused at the said trial, to

impose upon the said accused so convicted the fine,

Impose fine.

or the fine and punishment prescribed in case of

such conviction by the act of Assembly of this

State, or by the ordinance of the Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore, for the violation of which the

accused was so tried. Any person sentenced to the

payment of any fine and to the payment of the costs

of his or her prosecution, who shall not forthwith

pay the said fine and the costs of said prosecution,

shall be committed by such justice of the peace to

Shall commit.

the jail of Baltimore city until such fine and costs

are paid, or until the said person shall be discharged

from such jail by due course of law.

SEC. 626 C. If any person charged with any

of the offences hereinbefore referred to in this act

shall, when brought before any justice of the peace

sitting at a station-house in the city of Baltimore,

before the beginning of his actual trial for such

offence, pray a jury trial, it shall he the duty of such

Jury trial.

justice of the peace to commit such alleged offender

for trial before the Criminal Court of Baltimore, or

to hold the said alleged offender to good and sufficient

bail to appear for trial before the Criminal Court of

Baltimore at its next sitting, and to indorse upon

said commitment or recognizance the names and

residences of the witnesses for the prosecution; and

such commitment or recognizance so indorsed shall

be returned forthwith to the clerk of the said Crim-

inal Court of Baltimore.

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

take effect from and after the date of its passage,

Effective.

and that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with

the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby