LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 483

able as such under sections 275 and 276 of Article 27 of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments;"
and to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons ar-
rested and brought before him charged with any offence
specified in sections 67 and 68 of the same Article, or in sec-
tions 881 to 884 of this Article, relating to "Vagrant Chil-
dren;" and to hear, try and determine the cases of all persons
brought before him charged with assault or with assault and
battery; and to hear, try and determine all charges of carrying
concealed weapons, and all prosecutions or criminal proceed-
ings for an act done or omitted to be done in the City of Balti-
more, the doing of which act or the omission to do which act,
which is or may be punishable under any Act of Assembly of
this State or under any ordinance of the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, by pecuniary fine only not exceeding one hun-
dred dollars; but it shall be the duty of the said Justice, before
proceeding to hear, try and determine any of the charges afore-
said, to inform the party or parties charged therewith of his or
their respective right to a jury trial; and if a jury trial be so
prayed, or if the State's Attorney for said City shall before trial
for the alleged offence pray a jury trial on the part of the State,
the Justice shall forthwith commit or hold the party to' bail for
trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore and endorse on the
commitment or recognizance the fact of a jury trial having been
prayed; it is, however, hereby expressly provided that the said
Justices shall not have power to try and determine any violation
of the Code of Public General Laws of this State relating to
licenses, except violations of the laws relating to hawkers and
peddlers, which they shall have jurisdiction to try and de-
termine, and shall not have power to try and determine
any violations of the laws relating to Sabbath-breaking, but
shall cause all such offenders against the said provisions of said
Code of Public General Laws, except as aforesaid, to be com-
mitted or held to bail for trial in the Criminal Court of Balti-
more.