EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 987

they may be tried before any justice of the peace for Worces-
ter County; provided, that any defendant or defendants in
such cases shall, before the trial, be notified of his right to a
jury trial, and in any such case the State of Maryland shall be
the plaintiff, and the State's Attorney for said county and the
defendant or defendants therein shall respectively possess the
right to have the case removed to the Circuit Court for said
county where they can have a jury trial and the justice of the
peace or the Circuit Court may in all cases amend the war-
rant so that the offense intended to be charged may be duly
set forth; provided, further, that if the defendant be found
guilty and adjudged to pay a fine or to be imprisoned he may
appeal to the Circuit Court for Worcester County, on recogni-
zance at any time within ten days from the trial, and the
State may also appeal in any case upon order of the State's
Attorney. And said justices of the peace shall have power to
issue all process necessary to exercise such jurisdiction, and
where jury trial is waived they may try and determine all
such cases and pronounce judgment and sentence therein, and
they shall have power to approve the sureties of any recogni-
zance entered into upon appeal from their decision.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby re-
pealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act be and
the same is hereby declared an emergency law and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public safety, and being
passed by a aye and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all
the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 496.

AN ACT to provide for an appropriation by the State of Mary-
land of the sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500. 00),
or as much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of
paying certain claims against the Ocean City School Build-
ing Commission.

WHEREAS, By an Act. of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1914, Chapter 227, a Commission known as the "Ocean
City School Commission" was created; and