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

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 357.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 632
of Article 4 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled
"City of Baltimore, " sub-title "Justices of the Peace and
Constables, " as the same was re-enacted with amendments
by Chapter 777 of the Acts of Assembly of the year 1912.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 632 of Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "City of Baltimore, " sub-
title "Justices of the Peace and Constables, " as the same was
re-enacted) with amendments by Chapter 777 of the Acts of
Assembly of the year 1912, be repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

Section 632. Each of the said justices of the peace shall
have power to hear, try and determine the case of every person
who may be arrested and brought before him in the said City
of Baltimore, charged with the violation of Section 478 of
Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Public General Laws of
1914, title "Crimes and Punishments, " and to hear, try and
determine the cases of all persons arrested and brought before
him charged with any offense specified in Sections 865 to 868,
inclusive, of this said Article 4, or in Section 881 to 884,
inclusive, of this said Article 4; and to hear, try and determine
the cases of all persons brought before him charged with the
violation of Chapter 351 of the Acts of 1898, or. charged with
any disturbance of the public peace; and to hear, try and deter-
mine the cases of all persons brought before him charged with
assault or with assault and battery; provided that no justice of
the peace shall impose any fine exceeding $100 or any term of
imprisonment exceeding one year, in any case of assault, or
assault and battery, and to hear, try and determine all charges
of carrying concealed weapons and all violations of Section 4
of this Act; and to hear, try and determine all prosecutions or
criminal proceedings for an act done or omitted to be done in
the City of Baltimore, the doing of which act, or the omission
to do which act, is or may be punishable under any Act of As-