The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-05-13
Approved by the Governor, April Z. is
CHAPTER 4S5.

CHAPTER 4S5.
AN ACT TO REPEAL THE ACT OF GENERAL
session, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled
IAN act TO amend Article fifty-two OF the Code of
Public General Laws. title Justices of the
Peace except to the City of Baltimore, by
adding new section thereto, to follow Section
eleven and to be designated as Section eleven A,
and to be under the new subtitle of Criminal
Jurisdiction and to re-enaet the said act with
amendments so as to except Queen Anne's, Har-
ford, Talbot and Frederick counties.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, That the act of eighteen hundred
and ninety, Chapter six hundred and eighteen, en-
titled AN act to amend Article ffty-two of the
Code of Public General Laws. title Justices of the
Peace, except to the City of Baltimore, by add
ing new section thereto, to follow Section eleven
and to be designated Section eleven A, and to be
under the new subtitle of Criminal Jurisdiction,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
to read as follows:
SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Article tifty-two of the Code Of
Public General Laws is amended by the addition
of section TO follow Section eleven and to be num-
bered as Section IL a, under the new subtitle
II A. The several justices OF the peace In the
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lick countiesl shall have in addition TO the jurisdic-
ton which they now possess, and which may be
state, jurisdiction concurrent with that exercised
by the Circuit Courts for the several counties Of
this ate in all of assault without feloni
GUS intent, and in all cases of assault and battery,
and in all cases OF petit larceny when the value of
dollars, and in all nisdemeanors not punishable by
confinement in the Penitentiary which may be COM
mitted within their respective jurisdictions, and
shall have jurisdiction in all prosecutions or pro-
ceedings for the recovery of any penalty for doing
emitting to DO any act the doing of which the
omission to do which is made punishable under the
laws of this state within their said jurisdiction, by
any pecuniary fine or penalty or by lmprisonmenu
in JAIL in the Maryland House of Correction, all
Of which acts or omissions are hereby declared to
have power to issue all processes and to do all acts
which be necessary to the exercise of their said
Jurisdiction, and may try and determine all cases
thereof they may have Jurisdiction and may pro-
nounce Judgment and sentence therein in the same
manner and to the same extent as the Circuit Courts
for said counties could in such cases if said cases
were tried before said Circuit Courts without the
if any person when brought before any such Justice
having Jurisdiction of the case shall before trial
states attorney for SAID County shall before the
trial of such alleged ofense pray jury trial on the
part of the state it shall be the duty of any such
Justice to commit such alleged offender for trial in
the Circuit Court for the county in which the
then in session, or at its next session if it be not
then in session. and to return said commitment or
witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon
forthwith to the clerk of said court and the Justice
before whom the Is tried shall inform the per-
son CHARGED OF his right to jury trial, and in re-
ceiving the recognizance sent up by the justice the
clerk shall place the same on the appeal docket and
tce. and the case shall be tried on the information
or the warrant as II on appeal. and if on waiver of
jury trial before the justice and trial before him
either party shall feel aggrieyed there shall be a
right of appeal to the Circuit Court for the county
in which the alleged o1ense is charged to have
been committed: in case the judgment of the jus
ttce of the peace is against the accused he shall
appeal enter into recognizance with security to be
approved by the justice of the peace in every such
case the appeal shall be taken prayer within 10
days after Judgment entered.
SEC 8. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts
of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
peaed and that this act shall take effect from the
date OF its passage.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a cor
rect copy Of an act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed January session. 1892
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House Of Delegates.
W. q. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
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