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peace trying the case, or court before which the case niay be
tried; provided, however, that if any such person shall be sen-
tenced to the House of Correction such railroad company or
corporation, in all cases where the same is not prohibited either
by the laws of the State of Maryland, or of the United States,
which are in effect at present, or which may be hereafter passed,
shall provide free transportation for such person or persons to
said House of Correction, and also free transportation for not
more than one officer in charge of such person, or persons, to
said House of Correction and back to the place where such per-
son or persons may have been tried and convicted; or if such
person be a minor under eighteen years of age, he may, in the
discretion of the justice of the peace or of the court trying the
case, be committed to any reformatory institution provided by
law and authorized to receive the same for such period as said
justice of the peace or the said court may determine, not to
exceed two years. The several justices of the peace of the State
of Maryland (except those justices of the peace in and for the
City of Baltimore who have not been selected by proper legal
authority to sit at each station house of said City of Baltimore)
shall have in addition to the jurisdiction they now possess and
which may be conferred on them by or under the laws of this
State, jurisdiction to hear and determine all prosecutions or pro-
ceedings arising under the provisions of this Act and pronounce
judgment and sentence therein, and that all Acts and parts of
Acts, and all Sections and parts of Sections of the Code, both
of General and Local Laws, and all amendments of and additions
and supplements thereto now in force in the State of Maryland
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be and the same are
hereby repealed.

366-A. And be it further enacted, That each and every part
and provision of this Act is hereby declared to be an independ-
ent part and provision, and the holding of any part or pro-
vision to be void, ineffective, or unconstitutional for any cause,
shall not be deemed to affect any other part or provision thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 443.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section (10)
Ten as set out in Section 10 of Chapter 412 of the Acts of the