JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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206. The several justices of the peace in the respective
counties of this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction with
the Circuit Courts of their respective counties, and the
justices of the peace selected to sit at the respective station
houses in the city of Baltimore shall have concurrent juris-
diction with the Criminal Court of Baltimore City in the case
of persons arrested for the violation of the provisions of sec-
tion 203 of this Article, and such respective justices shall
proceed to hear and determine such cases when the parties
arrested upon charges of such violation are brought before
them, respectively, and to acquit such persons, or to sentence
such persons for the offence it convicted thereof, unless such
respective persons so charged when so brought before said
justices of the peace, respectively, and before they are
respectively tried, as aforesaid, shall pray a jury trial. If any
person charged with the commission of any one or more of the
several offences mentioned in section 203 of this Article,
brought before any justice of the peace, shall pray a jury
trial as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the said justice of the
peace to commit such person for trial, or to hold him to bail
to appear before the Criminal Court of Baltimore City or the
Circuit Court for the county, as the case may be, and to return
the commitment or the recognizance in such case immediately
to the clerk of said Court. And if such person or persons
shall be found to be guilty of the violation of any of the pro-
visions of this Act, the Court or justice of the peace impos-
ing the punishment herein prescribed shall also award posses-
sion to the owner of all of the property involved in such
violation.

CHAP 245.

To have
concurrent
Jurisdiction.

206 A. The requiring, taking or accepting of any deposit for
any purpose upon any keg, box, tray, carrier, crate, fuunt,
bottle, syphon, jug, tin, barrel, cask or any other vessel, shall
not be deemed to constitute a sale of such property, either
optional, conditional or otherwise in any proceeding under this
Act.

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to constitute
a sale ot
such pro perty

206 B. Any person or persons, partnership or partnerships,
body or bodies corporate that has or have heretofore tiled and
published a description of his, her, its or their name or names,
marks or devices tor the pin poses mentioned in section 201 of
this Act, in accordance with the law existing at the time of
such tiling and publication, shall not be required to again tile
and publish such description, but shall be entitled to all the
benefits of this Act as fully as if he, she, it or they had com-
plied with all the provisions hereof.
206 C. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any
person who has taken, given, received, or is using such kegs,

Not
necessary
to file a
description of
its name,
etc., a
second time.