1468 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 518

count of criminal offenses tried before him, under the provi-
sions of the Public General Laws, and the Public Local Laws,
which bond shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the Cir-
cuit Court for said county, and which shall be liable at the
suit of the State for the use of the said County Commissioners
in case of default of any of its conditions.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the Justice of the Peace, ap-
pointed by virtue of this Act shall have an office in the Court
House, at Rockville, or other suitable place in said town of
Rockville, to be provided by the County Commissioners for said
county, and shall attend at his office as often as the business of
same may require his attention.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the said Police Justice herein
provided shall have the same jurisdiction in civil actions as
other Justices of the Peace of the said county and shall have
criminal jurisdiction, concurrent with that exercised by the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County, in all cases of assault
and battery, cruelty to animals, vagrancy, drunkenness and dis-
orderly conduct, disturbance of the public peace, wrongfully
opening or breaking the seal of any letter not addressed to the
party, selling deadly weapons to minors, obscene publications,
blasphemy, destroying bounded or boundary trees, fraud upon
turnpike companies, all charges of violations of health laws,
violation of laws relating to turnpike companies, failing to
keep a light reflecting upon toll bars, trading stamps, female
sitters, selling of intoxicating liquors, gambling, wife beating,
deserting of wife or child, disorderly houses, carrying of con-
cealed weapons, maliciously destroying property unlawful
hunting, gaming, care and protecting of minors, Sabbath break-
ing, and all actions for the recovery of any fines, penalty or
forfeiture under the laws of the State, within the limits of said
Montgomery County, and all other violations of law, that are
classed or specified as misdemeanors, now in existence or here-
after to be created by law, including all violations of any ordi-
nance of any incorporated town in Montgomery County; pro-
vided, however, that said justice shall not have any jurisdiction
in cases of felony charged in any warrant or indictment, ex-
cept for the purpose of arrest, commitment for a hearing, com-
mitment for the action of the Grand Jury.

And the said justice shall have power to issue all process and
to do all acts which mav be necessary to the exercise of his said

jurisdiction; may hear and determine all cases whereof he may
have jurisdiction, and may pronounce judgment and sentence