574 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 321

issue any warrant, summons, commitment or recognizance
or for any other service or services connected therewith and
to this extent and to this extent alone is the jurisdiction of
all other Justices of the Peace in criminal cases strictly con-
fined. That the several Justices of the Peace of said county
shall have the power and authority to issue civil writs in
all cases so far as civil jurisdiction is concerned as had and
possessed by them on the first day of January, 1922, and
try, hear and determine same.

Section 6. Be it enacted,, That whenever any warrant is
sworn out before any of the said Justices of the Peace for
any offense committed in said county, which offense the said
Justice of the Peace has no power to hear and try, then it
shall be the duty of the said Justice of the Peace before whom
such a warrant is sworn out to make the same returnable
before the said Police Justice for hearing and trial.

Section T. Be it enacted. That whenever any person
shall be arrested in said Montgomery County, upon any
criminal charge or for the violation of any law of this
State whether such arrest is made without writ or is made
under a warrant issued by any Justice of the Peace, of the
said Montgomery County, it shall be the duty of such officer
making such arrest or in whose custody the person so arrested
may be, to take the person so arrested before the said Police
Justice or one of the Justices of the Peace of said county
according as is stated in the command or return of the writ
or warrant, for hearing or trial and in criminal cases the
said Police Justice or Justices of the Peace as the case may
be, of his own motion, or on the motion of the State's At-
torney for said county may at any time during the trial
before final judgment amend the information, warrant, docket
entries, name of the offender or other proceedings, in any
such case pending before him; and in all criminal trials
in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, to which cases
have been removed on an application for a jury trial or on
an appeal from the judgment of said Police Justice the
Circuit Court on motion of the State's Attorney for said
county, may at any time, before the trial or during the
progress of trial, or before final judgment, amend the in-
formation, warrant, docket entries, name of the offender or
other proceedings in such case, so that before the Police
Justice or Circuit Court, as the case may be, such case may