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shall be committed to jail until discharged by due course of
law. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Mayor and
Council from providing in any or all of the ordinances or by-
laws passed by them that violations of said ordinance or ordi-
nances, by-law or by-laws, shall not be criminal offense, or
that the fine or penalty imposed for violation thereof shall be
enforced by civil action only; provided, such intention is clearly *
expressed. Any violation of any provision under and belonging
to the sub-title of Pocomoke, as sub-title to Article 24 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Worcester
County", including all violations of any of the provisions of
this Act or Charter and also all violations of any ordinance
passed or to be passed by the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke
City, except such ordinances as shall by their terms be enforce-
able by civil action only, shall be misdemeanors, and all such
misdemeanors shall be indictable or they may be tried before
any justice of the peace for Worcester County; provided, that
any defendant or defendants in such cases shall, before the
trial, be notified of his right to a jury trial, and in any such
case the State of Maryland shall be the plaintiff, and the
State's Attorney for said county and the defendant or de-
fendants therein shall respectively possess the right to have
the case removed to the Circuit Court for said county where
they can have a jury trial and the justice of the peace or the
Circuit Court may in all cases amend the warrant so that the
offense intended to be charged may be duly set forth; provided
further, that if the defendant be found guilty and adjudged
to pay a fine or to be imprisoned he may appeal to the Circuit
Court for Worcester County, on recognizance at any time
within ten days from the trial, and the State may also appeal
in any case upon order of the State's Attorney. And said justice
of the peace shall have power to issue all process necessary to
exercise such jurisdiction, and where jury trial is waived they
may try and determine all such cases and pronounce judgment
and sentence therein, and they shall have power to approve the
sureties of any recognizance entered into upon appeal from
their decision.

SEC. 2. And 'be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved April 30, 1943.

CHAPTER 316.
(House Bill 51)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
148 of Article 48A of Flack's Annotated Code of Maryland