WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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goods, wares and merchandise which he could have

heretofore sold under such a traders' license, except

the liquors mentioned in the fourth section of this

act; and if any one who has obtained a license as

herein directed shall sell any such liquor or liquors,

except by this act he is allowed, he shall, upon con-

viction, be subject to the punishment or punishments

inflicted by the said fourth section of this act, and

in addition thereto, for the second offence, his license

shall be by the court declared to be void; any one

desiring to obtain a license as a pharmacist and

Pharmacist

druggist, such as is provided for in this section, for

and druggist's
license.

the year commencing on the first day of May, in

the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, or for

any subsequent year, shall file a petition and certifi-

cate to a judge of the said court as provided for in

this section, and the same proceedings shall be had

thereupon as therein prescribed; said petition may be

filed either upon or after the first day of May of

such year, or before, and if before, then it must be

filed within thirty days before said day; but if any

order of the judge to issue such license shall be filed

before the first day of May, the clerk shall suspend

issuing the same until such day.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That all prosecutions

for violations of the provisions of this act, and

which are hereby declared to be criminal offences,

How prose-
cuted.

may be either upon presentment and indictment or

by trial before a justice of the peace, who shall

have jurisdiction original and concurrent with the

Circuit Court for said county, and the said jus-

tice shall have power to issue all process and 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 said county could do in such cases, as if

Concurrent

such cases were tried before said court without the

jurisdiction.

intervention of a jury; provided, however, that if

any person when brought before any such justice

having jurisdiction of the case shall, before trial for

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

Attorney for said county shall, before trial of such

alleged offence, pray a jury trial on the part of the

btate, it shall be the duty of any such justice to