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and less than fifty dollars, the person so imprisoned shall be dis-
charged from custody at the end of sixty days from the imposi-
tion thereof, if no imprisonment be ordered by the court, or at
the end of sixty days from and after the expiration of the time
for which said person has been ordered to be imprisoned, on
proof shown of his inability to pay said fine and costs; and pro-
vided also, that if the said fine and costs exceed the sum of fifty
dollars, the person so imprisoned shall be discharged from cus-
tody at the end of six months from the imposition thereof, or
from the expiration of the term for which he was ordered to be
imprisoned, on proof shown of his inability to pay.

444. When any fine or penalty is imposed by any Act of
Assembly of this State, or by any ordinance of any incorporated
city or town in this State, enacted in pursuance of sufficient
authority, for the doing of any act forbidden to be done by such
Act of Assembly or ordinance, or for omitting to do any act
required to be done by such Act of Assembly or ordinance, the
doing of such act, or the omission to do such act, shall be
deemed to be a criminal offence; such offence, in the City of
Baltimore, shall be prosecuted by the arrest of the offender for
such offence, and by holding him to appear in or committing
him for trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, at the Satur-
day sessions of said court, which said court shall have jurisdic-
tion in the said cases, and shall proceed to try or dispose of the
same in the same manner as other criminal cases triable at the
Saturday sessions of said court may be tried or proceeded with,
or disposed of, or such offence may be prosecuted by indict-
ment in such court; such offences in any county of this State
shall be prosecuted by the arrest of the offender for such of-
fence, and by holding him to bail to appear in or committing
him for trial in the Circuit Court for the county in which such
offence was committed, or by indictment in the Circuit Court
for such county for such offence. If any person shall be ad-
judged guilty of any such offence by any court having jurisdic-
tion in the premises, he shall be sentenced to the fine or penalty
prescribed by such Act of Assembly or ordinance, and to the
costs of his prosecution, and in default of payment thereof he
shall be committed to jail until thence discharged by due course
of law; any indictment for the violation of any ordinance of any