PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1691

may be either upon presentment or indictment, or by trial before
a Justice of the Peace having criminal jurisdiction, who shall
have jurisdiction original and concurrent with the Circuit Court
for St. Mary's County; and the said Justice of the Peace shall
have the power to issue all process, and to do all acts which
may be necessary to the exercise of his said jurisdiction, and
may try and determine all cases whereof he may have jurisdic-
tion, and may pronounce judgment and sentence therein in the
same manner and to the same extent as the Circuit Court for
St. Mary's County could do in such cases, if such cases were
tried before said court without the intervention of a jury;
provided, however, that if any person, when brought before any
justice having 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 trial of such alleged offense,
pray a jury trial on the part of the State, it shall be the
duty of such justice to commit such alleged offender for trial
or to hold him to bail to appear for trial in the Circuit
Court of St. Mary's County if it be in session, or at its next
session, if it be not in session, and to return said commitment or
recognizance with the names and residence of the witnesses for
the prosecution endorsed thereon, forthwith to the clerk of said
Court; and the justice before whom the case is brought shall
in every such case inform the person charged of his right to
pray a jury trial.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That in all prosecutions under
this Act, by indictment or otherwise, it shall not be necessary
to state the kind of liquor sold; nor to describe the place where
sold; nor to show the knowledge of the principal to convict for
the acts of an agent or servant; nor to state the name of any
person to whom liquor is sold; nor to set forth the facts that
a majority of the legal voters of St. Mary's County voting upon
said proposition voted "Against License," but it shall be suffi-
cient to state in that regard that the Act took place in St. Mary's
County. The issuance of an internal revenue special tax stamp or
receipt by the United States to any person as a wholesale or re-
tail dealer in liquors or in malt liquors at any place within St.
Mary's County after May 1st (1916), Nineteen Hundred and
Sixteen, shall be prima facie evidence of the sale of intoxicating
liquor by such person at such place, or at any place of business
of such person within such territory where such stamp or re-
ceipt is posted, and at the time charged in any suit or prose-
cution under this Act; provided, such time is within the life
of such stamp or receipt.