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may deem it necessary and advisable, in his discretion, hold
hearings and trials in the election district where the particular
offense to be heard or tried was committed, at a place in such
election district to be selected by said Police Justice, the use
thereof to be paid for by the County Commissioners of said
County in a sum not to exceed one dollar for any hearing or
trial, but this discretionary power shall not, in any event, be
exercised to accommodate the personal convenience or desires of
any person or persons.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the said Police Justice herein
provided shall have no civil jurisdiction; but shall have the
jurisdiction of and perform the duties of coroner and shall
have exclusive criminal jurisdiction concurrent with that exer-
cised by the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's 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 boun-
dary trees, all charges of violations of health laws, trading
stamps, female sitters, selling of intoxicating liquors, gambling,
wife beating, deserting of wife or child, disorderly houses, car-
rying of concealed weapons, maliciously destroying property,
unlawful hunting, gaming, care and protecting of minors, Sab-
bath breaking, and all actions for the recovery of any fines,
penalty or forfeiture under the laws of the State, within the
limits of said Queen Anne's County, and all other violations
of law, that are classed or specified as misdemeanors, now in
existence or hereafter to be created by law, including all vio-
lations of any ordinance of any incorporated town in Queen
Anne's County, subject, however, to the same right of appeal in
all cases as now exists under the law, and subject to the same
right of election to be tried by a jury, notice of which must be
clearly given by said Police Justice to the party before trial,
in all cases punishable by confinement in the Penitentiary, but
with no right of election to be tried by a jury in any case pun-
ishable by a fine, or confinement in jail or the House of Correc-
tion, said requirement to forego the right of election to be tried
by a jury in such cases shall not be construed as barring the
right of appeal to the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County;
provided, 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 and