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names and residences of the witnesses for the prosecution
endorsed thereon forthwith to the clerk of the said court; pro-
vided, the justice before whom the case is for trial shall inform
the person charged of his right to a jury trial; and should such,
person waive a jury trial and demand a trial before such jus-
tice, then it shall be the duty of said justice to forthwith notify
the State's Attorney for said county of the name of such person
and the character of the charge against him, and said justice
'shall not proceed to try such case within a less period than
seven days from the date of sending said notifications, unless
he should sooner receive information from said State's Attorney
also waiving a jury trial therein, in which event he may proceed
to try such case within seven days from said notification; pro-
vided, however, that this section shall not apply to any justices
of the peace for the twelfth election district except the station
house justice for said district, which said justice, other than the
station house justice, shall not exercise any criminal jurisdic-
tion except as set forth in the next succeeding section of this
article.

205. Whenever any justice of the peace appointed for the
twelfth election district of Baltimore county, other than the
justice selected as aforesaid to sit at the station house at Can-
ton in said district, as aforesaid, shall issue a State writ for
the arrest of any person, or shall issue any writ or summons
against any person or corporation to recover any fine, penalty
or forfeiture, under any law of this State, such writ or sum-
mons shall be made returnable before the justice of the peace
selected by the Governor to sit at said station house in said
twelfth election district, and shall not be made returnable
before the justice of the peace issuing the same, unless he, the
justice of the peace selected to sit at said station house as afore-
said; and whenever any person shall be arrested in the twelfth
election district upon any criminal charge, or for the violation
of any law of this State, it shall be the duty of the police officer
or constable making such arrest, or other person in whose cus-
tody the said person so arrested may be, to take the person so
arrested before the justice of the peace sitting at said Canton
station house; and if such arrest is made without writ or war-
rant, or if such writ or warrant is made returnable before any
other justice of the peace, whether of said twelfth district, or
some other district, and the arrest is made in the twelfth elec-
tion district as aforesaid, or on a writ or warrant issued by a
justice appointed for said district, it shall be the duty of the
said police officer, constable or other person having authority
to make such arrest, to take the person so arrested to the sta-
tion house at Canton in said twelfth election district; and the