ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 571

at the suit of the State for the use of the said County Commis-
sioners in case of default of any of its conditions.

Section 3. Be it enacted. That the Justice of the Peace,
appointed 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 busi-
ness of same may require his attention, and at least four days
of each and every week beginning at 10 o'clock A. M. and con-
tinuing in session as long as the business of the said Court
may require.

Section 4. Be it enacted, That the said Police Justice here-
in 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
disorderly 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 art violations of any ordi-
nance of any incorporated town in Montgomery County; pro-
vided, however, that said justice shall not have any jurisdic-
tion in cases of felony charged in any warrant or indictment,
except for the purpose of arrest, commitment for a hearing,
commitment for the action of the Grand Jury.

And the said justice shall have power to issue all process
and to do all acts which may 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