J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1183

CHAPTER 765
(House Bill 797)

AN ACT to add new Section 38A to Article 26 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Courts", sub-title "Circuit
Courts for the Counties—Court Stenographer", to follow immedi-
ately after Section 38 thereof, relating to the residence require-
ments and compensation of one of the judges of the Second Circuit
of Maryland, and relating generally to circuit courts in this State.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 38A be and it is hereby added to Article 26 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Courts", sub-title
"Circuit Courts for the Counties—Court Stenographer", to follow im-
mediately after Section 38 thereof, and to read as follows :

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.

they shall have power to issue all processes and do all acts which

may be necessary for the exercise of said jurisdiction, and may try
and determine all such cases and may pronounce judgment and

impose sentence therein to the same extent as the aforesaid courts

having criminal jurisdiction could do in such cases, if such cases

were tried before such court without a jury; provided, however, that

if any person when brought before any such justice of the peace

having jurisdiction of the case, shall before the trial for the alleged

offense, pray a jury trial, or if the State's Attorney for the said

county where the offense occurs shall, before the trial of such alleged

offense, pray a jury trial on behalf of the State, it shall be the

duty of such justice of the peace to commit such alleged offender

for trial, or to hold him to bail to appear for trial in the court

having criminal jurisdiction in the case, at its then or next session

and to transmit said commitment or recognisance with the names
and residences of the witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon,

forthwith to the clerk of said court; and the justice of the peace,

before whom the accused is brought for trial, shall inform him

seasonably of his right to demand a trial by jury. TION, SHALL BE

SENTENCED TO PAY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN $25.00 NOR
MORE THAN $100.00 OR IMPRISONED IN JAIL FOR A PERIOD
NOT EXCEEDING TEN DAYS OR BOTH FINED AND IMPRIS-
ONED IN THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT. ANY SUCH
PERSON WHO IS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS SHALL BE
WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE JUVENILE COURT OF
ALLEGANY COUNTY.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 28, 1959.