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that only such Justices are vested with authority herein as
would have jurisdiction and authority to hear, try and de-
termine cases of violation of the law before the passage of
this Act.

319A. If any person shall break into any shop, store-
house, tobacco house or warehouse, although the same be
not contiguous to or used with any mansion house, with
intent to steal any money, goods or chattels under the
value of twenty-five dollars, or if any person shall break
into any shop, store-house, tobacco house or warehouse,
although the same be not contiguous to or used with any
mansion house, and steals from thence any money, goods
or chattels under the value of one dollar, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be tried before the Cir-
cuit Court of the County wherein the offense may have
been committed or the Criminal Court of Baltimore City,
if the offense be committed in the City of Baltimore, and
being thereof convicted, shall restore the goods and chat-
tels so stolen, or pay the full value thereof to the owner
thereof, and be further sentenced to the Penitentiary or
House of Correction, or to the Jail of the County in which
the offense may have been committed, or of the City of
Baltimore, if the offense be committed in said City, in the
discretion of the Circuit Court of the County or of the
Criminal Court of Baltimore City, wherever the offense
may have been committed, for not more than eighteen
months.

Provided that nothing in these sections shall be con-
strued to interfere with any prosecution that has or may
hereafter be commenced for any violation of these sections
hereby repealed or added happening previous to the date
this law becomes effective.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed upon a yea and nay vote, sup-
ported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of
the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved December 15, 1933.

CHAPTER 79.

AN ACT to add two additional sections to the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, Article 16, to be
known as Sections 225A and 225B, to provide a method