WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

shall be summoned as a juror of said court more than
once in any one year; nor shall any person be summoned
and returned as juror by any sheriff, who may not have
arrived at twenty-five years of age, and who doth not pos-
sess the other qualifications required by the constitution
and laws of this State.

CHAP. 106.

Qualifications

of juror.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the justices of the peace in the city of Baltimore, wher-
ever they shall commit for want of bail, any person or
persons for trial on charge of assault and battery, for keep-
ing a disorderly house, or for violations of the act, enti-
tled an act to regulate the issuing of licenses to traders and
keepers of ordinaries, passed December session eighteen
hundred and twenty-seven, chapter one hundred and
seventeen, and the several supplements thereto, and for
any other small offences, for which no greater punishment
than fine and imprisonment can be imposed, to endorse

of the witnesses who shall have appeared before them on

Justices, &c. to
endorse name
and residence
of witness on

commitment.

behalf of the prosecution; and to recognize said witnesses
to appear before Baltimore city court on the next Satur-
day thereafter; and it shall be the duty of the warden of
Baltimore city and county jail, on receiving the same, to
enter the names and places of residence of said witnesses
on his docket, and on demand, to give a copy thereof to
the accused, together with a copy of commitment.

And recognize.

Warden of jail
to enter on his
docket, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the warden of the jail of Baltimore city and county, to
bring before one of the judges of Baltimore city court,
every person who may be committed to said jail for want
of bail, for any of the offences aforesaid, on the Saturday

Warden to
bring persons
committed be-
fore a judge, &c.

next succeeding his or her commitment; and it the said
person shall think proper to waive his or her right to a tri-
al by jury, and have his or her cause heard and determin-
ed in a summary way, it shall be the duty of the judges
of Baltimore city court, or any one of them, to hear and
determine the same; and the same shall be proceeded on
in the same manner and to the same legal effect, as if it
had been submitted on presentment or "indictment found
by the grand jury; save only, that in all such cases, the
clerk of said court shall tax only half the legal charges
established by law in cases of indictment found by a grand

In case right of
trial by jury be

waived.

jury; and that all cases of presentment for violation of the
act to regulate the issuing of licenses to traders and keep-
ers of ordinaries, passed December session eighteen hun-
dred and twenty-seven, chapter one bundled and seven-

Trial upon pre-

sentment.