EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1101

Section 336. The several Justices of the Peace in the re-
spective counties of this State shall have concurrent jurisdic-
tion with the Circuit Courts for their respective counties; and
the Justices of the Peace selected to sit at the respective sta-
tion houses in the City of Baltimore shall have concurrent
jurisdiction with the Criminal Court of Baltimore in the case
of persons arrested for the violation of the provisions of Sec-
tion 333 hereof, and such respective Justices of the Peace
shall proceed to hear and determine such cases when the par-
ties arrested upon charges of such violation are respectively
brought before them, and to acquit such persons, or to sentence
such persons for the offense if convicted thereof, unless such
respective persons so charged, when so brought before any such
Justice of the Peace and before they are respectively tried,
as aforesaid, shall pray a jury trial. If any person charged
with the commission of any one or more of the several offenses
mentioned in Section 333 hereof, and brought before any Jus-
tice of the Peace, shall pray a jury trial as aforesaid, it shall
be the duty of the said Justice of the Peace to commit such
person for trial, or to hold him, in bail to appear before the
Criminal Court of Baltimore or the Circuit Court for the
county as the case may be; and to return the commitment or
the recognizance in such case immediately to the Clerk of said
Court, and if such person or persons shall be found to be guilty
of a violation of any of the provisions of Section 333 hereof,
the Court or Justice of the Peace imposing the punishment
therein prescribed shall also award to the rightful owner or
dealer possession of all of the property involved in such viola-
tion.

Section 337. A returnable container as used in this Act is
hereby defined to be any device made of any material whatso-
ever, used for the purpose of holding,. containing or convert-
ing into a package, goods, wares or merchandise, or packages
thereof, either of necessity or for convenience of delivery or
sale, and which container is, by its very nature susceptible of
repeated use for such purpose, and the title to which container
the vendor does not intend to pass with the sale of the con-
tainer; and for the purpose of this Act the requiring, taking
or accepting of any deposit for any purpose upon any regis-
tered returnable container shall not be deemed to constitute a
sale of such container, whether optional, conditional or other-
wise, in any proceeding had under this Act.