ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight, he, she, it, or they, shall, on conviction
thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than
fifty dollars or more than three hundred dollars,
and the costs of prosecution, or be confined in
the Maryland House of Correction for thirty
days, or in the county jail for thirty days, or
both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court, or justice of the peace.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all prosecu-

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tions for violations of this act may be either
upon presentment and indictment in the circuit
court, or by trial before a justice of the peace,
and all justices of the peace in said county shall
have jurisdiction, original and concurrent, with
the circuit court for said county; and said jus-

Prosecu-
tions — how
made.

tices of the peace 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 for the violation of
this act, and pronounce judgment and sentence,
and enforce the same, to the same extent and
manner as the circuit court for said county can
do in such cases ; provided, that if any person,
when brought before any justice shall, before
trial, pray a jury trial, or if the state's attorney

Power to is-
sue process.

shall pray a jury trial, it shall be the duty of
said justice to commit such offender for trial, or
hold him to bail, to appear for trial at the next
circuit court for said county, and to return the
commitment or recognizance, with names of the
witnesses endorsed thereon forthwith to the
clerk of said court ; and said justice shall in
every case inform the offender of his right to a
jury trial.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the

Commit for
trial.

duty of the sheriff of said county to publish in
each newspaper published in said district, or if
none be published therein, in some newspaper
published in said county, and by handbills posted
in said district, notice of said election at least
seven days before said election, by at least one
insertion, under penalty in case of neglect or
refusal to do so, as is now provided in the elec-
tion laws of this state ; and said notice shall, in
substance, state that the question whether or
not spirituous or fermented liquors or alcoholic

Publish notice
of election.