EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1501

and shall have jurisdiction in all prosecutions of proceedings
for the recovery of any penalty for doing or omitting to do
any act the doing of which, or the omission to do which, is
made punishable under the laws of this State, within their
said jurisdiction, by any pecuniary fine or penalty, or by
imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland House of Correc-
tion; all of which acts or omissions are hereby declared to be
criminal offenses; and the said justices shall have power to
issue all process and to do all acts which may be necessary to
the exercise of their said jurisdiction; and may try and deter-
mine all cases whereof they may have jurisdiction; and may
pronounce judgment and sentence therein, in the same manner
and to the same extent, as the Circuit Court for said county
could in such cases, if such cases were tried before them, with-
out the intervention of a jury; provided, however, that if any
person, when brought before any such justice having jurisdic-
tion 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 the action of the Grand
Jury of the Circuit Court for Harford County, and to return
said commitment or recognizance, with the names and the resi-
dences of the witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon,
forthwith to the clerk of said court; and the justice before
whom the case is tried shall inform the person charged of his
right to a jury trial. And if on waiver of jury trial before the
justice, and trial before him, either party shall feel aggrieved,
there shall be right of appeal to the Circuit Court for Har-
ford County; in case the judgment of the justice of the peace
is against the accused, and he shall appeal, he shall enter into
recognizance with the penalty to be fixed and the security to
be approved by the justice of the peace, and in every such case
the appeal shall be taken within ten (10) days after judgment
entered.

411. In all cases provided by the Acts of Assembly for
punishment upon conviction before justices of the peace, for
offenses committed in Harford County, the said offenders may
be presented by the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court for said
county, instead of before a justice of the peace, and in all cases
of criminal offenses in which justices of the peace of Harford
County may by law now existing or hereafter to be enacted,
have jurisdiction to hear and determine, the Circuit Court for