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and endorse on the commitment or recognizance the fact of a jury-
trial having been prayed. It is hereby expressly provided that the
said justice shall not have power to try and determine any violation
of the Public General Laws of this State relating to licenses (except
violations of laws relating to hawkers and peddlers heretofore
mentioned), and shall not have power to try and determine any viola-
tion of Section [682] 85 of [this] Article 27 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1951 Edition), but shall cause all such offenders against
the Public General or Local Laws to be committed or held to bail
for trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore. [Nothing herein con-
tained shall apply to or affect the jurisdiction conferred upon Police
Justices of Baltimore City by Section 140-P of Chapter 207 of the
Acts of Assembly of the year 1910, codified as Section 157 of Article
56 of the Annotated Code of Public Civil Laws of the year 1912,
but the jurisdiction conferred by said last-mentioned section shall
be the same as before the passage of said Chapter 777 of the Acts
of Assembly of the year 1912.]

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved April 10, 1957.

CHAPTER 575
(House Bill 375)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 406(a) of
Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1956 Supplement),
title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Larceny", increasing
the fine allowed to be imposed on conviction of stealing goods worth
less than $100.00.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 406 (a) of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1956 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Lar-
ceny", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

406. Stealing goods worth less than $100.00.

(a) Penalty.—If any person shall steal, take or carry away per-
sonal goods of another under the value of one hundred dollars and
being thereof convicted he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall restore the goods and chattels so stolen or pay the full
value thereof to the owner thereof, and be fined not more than [fifty]
one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than eighteen months
in the house of correction or jail, or both fined and imprisoned; pro-
vided that all actions or prosecutions hereunder shall be commenced
within two years after the commission of said offense.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.