Chapter 236.
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CHAP. 236.— An act to amend “An act to define the jurisdiction of the police court of the District of Columbia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.July 23, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Police court, D. C. Vol. 26, p. 818. That an act entitled “An act to define the jurisdiction of the police court of the District of Columbia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, be amended as follows:
Strike out all of section two of said act, and in lieu thereof insert the following: " “Sec. 2. That prosecutions in the police court shall be on informationProsecutions. by the proper prosecuting officer. In all prosecutions within the jurisdiction of said court in which, according to the Constitution of the United States, the accused would be entitled to a jury trial, the trialJury trials. shall be by jury, unless the accused shall in open court expressly waiveWaiving jury. such trial by jury and request to be tried by the judge, in which case the. trial shall be by such judge, and the judgment and sentence shall have the same force and effect in all respects as if the same had been entered and pronounced upon the verdict of a jury.
In all cases whereCases where jury may be demanded. the accused would not by force of the Constitution of the United States 262 be entitled to a trial by jury, the trial shall be by the court without a jury, unless in such of said last-named cases wherein the fine or penalty may be fifty dollars or more, or imprisonment as punishment for the offense may be thirty days or more, the accused shall demand a trial by Fines, etc.jury, in which case the trial shall be by jury. In all cases where the said court shall impose a fine it may, in default of the payment of the fine imposed, commit the defendant for such a term as the court thinks right and proper, not to exceed one year.
” " Sec. 2. That section ten hundred and sixty of the Revised StatutesOaths. R. S., D. C., sec, 1960, p. 123, amended. relating to the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, amended so that said section shall read: " “Sec. 1060 The clerk and the deputy clerks, and such other officersOfficers to administer oaths. of the court as may be assigned by the judges of the court for that purpose, shall have the power to administer oaths and affirmations.” " Approved, July 23, 1892.