ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1105

timore County, and the several Justices of the Peace at
Large as provided in Section 392 of this Article shall be au-,
thorized and empowered to sit in the place and stead of any
of the Justices of the Peace above designated as Station
House Justices, when said Justices are not available for
service, as provided in said Section 392.

396. The several Justices of the Peace for Balti-
more County shall have jurisdiction concurrent with
that exercised by the Circuit Court for said county in all
cases of assault without any felonious intent; and in all
cases of assault and battery, and in all misdemeanors not
punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, which may
be committed within said county, and shall have jurisdic-
tion 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 pun-
ishable under the laws of this State, within their said
jurisdiction, by any pecuniary fine or penalty, or by im-
prisonment in jail or in the Maryland House of Correction;
provided, however, that said Justices of the Peace shall in
no case have jurisdiction to try any person on a charge
of selling any sort of intoxicating liquors or beverages on
Sunday, or to minors, or without license, or within any
limit, precinct for district prohibited by law, all of which
acts or commissions are hereby declared to be criminal
offenses, and the said Justices shall have power to issue all
process and to do all acts which may be necessary to the
exercise of their 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 in said
county could in such cases, if such cases were tried before
it without the intervention of a jury; provided, however,
that if any person brought before any Justice having juris-
diction of the case shall, before trial for the alleged offense,
pray a jury trial, it shall be the duty of any Justice to
commit such alleged offender for trial in the Circuit Court
for said County at its then session, if it then be in ses-
sion, or at its next session, if it be not then in session,
and to return said commitment or recognizance, with the
names and addresses of the witnesses for the prosecution
indorsed thereon, forthwith to the clerk of the said court;
but should such person waive a jury trial and elect to
be tried before such Justice, after having first been in-
formed by the Justice before whom the case is pending, of
his right to a jury trial, then it shall be the duty of the