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jurisdiction of the subject-matter, and the person against whom said en-
forcement is sought; and thereupon it shall be the duty of said court,
on motion or application, ex parte, at any time after ten days from the
filing of the award, to enter judgment or decree thereupon, as upon a final
award made by referees under rule of court; upon which judgment or
decree, execution shall issue without stay. No matter affecting the title
of real estate, however, shall be submitted to or arbitrated by the said
committee under this or the preceding section, but the committee may
direct in its award the payment of the costs and expenses of the arbitra-
tion, and the amount thereof shall be embraced as a principal sum in
the judgment or "decree to be rendered; if awarded, to be paid by the
party against whom such judgment or decree is sought. No judgment or
decree rendered on any such award shall be liable to be stayed, except
upon allegation, under oath of the defendant, of manifest fraud in the
procurement or rendition of the award, or of a material and substantial
failure of the committee specifically alleged and set forth, to comply with
the by-laws or Sections 226 or 227, in the hearing and determination of
the matters submitted; nor shall any such judgment or decree be quashed,
modified or stricken out, except upon satisfactory proof of the matters
so required to be so alleged; neither shall there be any appeal in any case
from the original judgment, order or decree, whereby, after a hearing of
the allegations and proofs as aforesaid, the said original judgment or
decree shall be maintained..

ASSAULT AND BATTERY.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 155. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4. sec. n.

229. Any person who shall, without any provocation, assault and beat
any person in any of the streets, lanes, alleys or highways of the City of
Baltimore, or at any place of public resort or amusement, between the
hours of six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock the following morning,
or who shall counsel, aid or abet in such assault and battery, shall be fined
in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars and be imprisoned not less than
one month, or the Judge of the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, or the
judge having jurisdiction of the offense, may, in his discretion, sentence
the person convicted of such offense to confinement in the penitentiary
for a period not less than six months nor more than two years.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 156. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 72.

230. It shall not be necessary to state with more particularity than is
now necessary in proceedings for assaults and batteries, the time or place
of such assault and battery in the recognizance or commitment on which
the said person is tried, but the said person may be tried on a recognizance
or commitment for a common assault and battery, and shall be sentenced
by the court according to the facts proved at the trial.