602                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 181

§ 477. [Jurisdiction over violators; prosecution; jury trial.]
Award of property to rightful owner by court.

[The several justices of the peace in the respective counties of this
State shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts for
their respective counties, in the case of persons arrested for the viola-
tion of the provisions of § 474 hereof, and such respective justices of
the peace shall proceed to hear and determine such cases when the
parties arrested upon charges of such violation are respectively
brought before them, and to acquit such persons, or to sentence such
persons for the offense if convicted thereof, unless such respective
persons so charged, when so brought before any such justice of the
peace and before they are respectively tried, as aforesaid, shall pray a
jury trial. If any person charged with the commission of any one or
more of the several offenses mentioned in § 474 hereof, and brought
before any justice of the peace, shall pray a jury trial as aforesaid, it
shall be the duty of the said justice of the peace to commit such person
for trial, or to hold him in bail to appear before the circuit court for
the county; and to return the commitment or the recognizance in
such case immediately to the clerk of said court, and i] If [such] any
person or persons shall be found guilty of a violation of any of the
provisions of § 474 hereof, the court [or justice of the peace] im-
posing the punishment therein prescribed shall also award to the
rightful owner or dealer possession of all of the property involved in
such violation.

§ 482. Throwing ballast, ashes, oyster shells, etc., into.

If any ballast, ashes, filth, earth, soil, oysters or oyster shells be
taken, unladen or cast out of any ship, steamboat, scow, pungy or
other vessel on any pretense whatever in Chesapeake Bay above
"Sandy Point" or in the waters of Herring Bay or in any river,
creek or harbor within this State below high water mark, the master
or other person having charge or command of such ship, steamboat,
scow or other vessel shall, upon conviction thereof [before any jus-
tice of the peace of this State], be fined not less than twenty dollars
nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars[, one half of which
amount shall be paid to the informer and the other half to the State;
but anyone convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall
be entitled to appeal to the circuit court for the county in which he
was convicted, or to the Baltimore City Court if the offense was com-
mitted in the City of Baltimore]; this section shall not, however, be
construed to apply to the improvement of harbors or to affect any
existing act of Assembly relating to the construction of wharves or to
the rights of riparian proprietors.

§ 492. Working on Sunday; permitting children or servants to
game, fish, hunt, etc.; Baltimore, Prince George's and
Montgomery counties and certain persons excepted.

No person whatsoever shall work or do any bodily labor on the
Lord's day, commonly called Sunday; and no person having children
or servants shall command, or wittingly or willingly suffer any of
them to do any manner of work or labor on the Lord's day (works
of necessity and charity always excepted), nor shall suffer or permit
any children or servants to profane the Lord's day by gaming, fishing,
fowling, hunting or unlawful pastime or recreation; and every person
transgressing this section and being hereof convicted [before a justice