794 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

laws of Maryland, and shall account for and pay over to the
Board of School Commissioners, or to the County Commis-
sioners of said county, all fines and penalties collected by them,
which are payable to the County Commissioners or to the
School Commissioners under the law.

SEC. 289B. The several justices of the peace for Election Dis-
trict Number Two of Frederick county 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, jurisdic-
tion concurrent with that exercised by the Circuit Court of
Frederick county, in all cases of assault without any felonious
intent; and in all cases of assault and battery, and in the fol-
lowing other misdemeanors, to wit: cruelty to animals, va-
grancy, collection of tolls from funerals, drunkenness and dis-
orderly conduct, disturbance of public peace, adultery, wrong-
fully opening or breaking the seal of any letter not addressed
to the party, selling deadly weapons to minors, obscene publi-
cations, blasphemy, destroying bounded or boundary trees,
fraud upon turnpike companies, all charges of violations of
health laws, violations of law relating to turnpike companies,
failing to keep a light reflected upon toll bars, trading stamps
and female sitters; and 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; may try and determine
all cases whereof they may have jurisdiction, and may pro-
nounce judgment and sentence therein- in the same manner
and to the same extent as the Circuit Court for Frederick
county could in such cases if said cases were tried before said
court, without the investigation of a jury; provided, however,
that if any person, when brought before any such justice hav-
ing jurisdiction of the case, shall before trial for the alleged
offense pray a jury trial, or if the State's Attorney for said
county shall before the trial of such alleged offense pray a
jury trial on the part of the State, it shall be the duty of any
such justice to commit such alleged offender for trial in the
Circuit Court for Frederick county, at its then session if it
be in session, or the next session if it be not then in session,
and to return said commitment or recognizance, with the name
and residence of the witnesses for the prosecution indorsed
thereon, forthwith to the clerk of the Circuit Court, and the
justice before whom the case is tried shall inform the person
charged of his right to a jury trial, and on receipt of the recog-
nizance sent up by the justice, the clerk shall place the same on
the appeal docket, and issue a subpoena for the witnesses
named by the justice, and the case shall be tried on the infor-
mation or the warrant, as if on appeal; and if on waiver of