FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 338.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section
11 A of Article 52 of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Justices of the Peace, " sub-title "Criminal Juris-
diction, " as said section was amended by Chapter 485 of the

Act of 1892.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section eleven A of article fifty-two of the
Code of Public General Laws, title " Justices of the Peace, "
sub-title " Criminal Jurisdiction, " as said section was amended
by chapter 485 of the Acts of 1892, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to
read as follows:

Repeal.

11 A. The several justices of the peace in the State of Mary-
land, except in the city of Baltimore, and in Queen Anne's,
Talbot, Harford, Frederick and Montgomery counties, shall
have, in addition to the jurisdiction which they now possess
and which may be conferred on them by or under the laws of
this State, jurisdiction concurrent with that exercised by the
Circuit Court for the several counties of this State, in all cases
of assault without any felonious intent, and in all cases of
assault and battery, and in all cases of petit larceny, when
the value of the property stolen does not exceed the sum of
five dollars, and in all misdemeanors not punishable by con-
finement in the penitentiary, which may be committed within
their respective jurisdictions; and shall have jurisdiction 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 punishable under the laws of
this State, within their said jurisdiction, by any pecuniary tine
or penalty, or by imprisonment in jail or the Maryland House
of Correction, ail of which acts or omissions are hereby declared
to be criminal offences; and the said justices shall have power
to issue all processes and to do all acts which may be necessary
to the exercise of their said 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 for
said counties could in such cases if said cases were tried
before said Circuit Courts without the intervention of a
jury; provided, however, that if any person, when brought
before any such justice having jurisdiction of the case,

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Jurisdiction
of Justices
of the peace.