128 MARYLAND MANUAL.

estate as judgments rendered by law courts, but such lien shall
not defeat that of the original judgment; any justice may issue
execution or other process of judgment on any judgment or after
stay by supersedeas, on any judgment by any justice in the same
county; where a justice may issue a fieri facias, he may also
issue an attachment; any justice may issue executions on any
short copy of a judgment by any justice in the State, copy to be
certified and sealed by the clerk of the court of the county in
which judgment is rendered; a justice shall have power to de-
termine, under certain procedure, the ownership of property
taken on a judgment where the title is disputed; justices of the
peace shall write and prepare all probates, affidavits, supersedeas
and other instruments to be executed by them when required,
except acknowledgments of deeds; may receive affidavits neces-
sary for distraint for rent; may, upon information given him of
any woman bearing an illegitimate child, issue a warrant for her
and require her to give security that the child shall not become a
public charge, and, in the absence of such security, she may be
given over to the custody of the sheriff; if such a person shall
give the name of the father upon oath, the justice shall dis-
charge her and cause the putative father to give bail for
eighty dollars that the child will not be a public charge;
if the father is a resident of the same county, and if
not such resident, the justice shall transmit a copy of the
proceedings to a justice is the county in which the father
lives, and he shall require such bond; where any recognizance
of indemnification is taken, the justice shall transmit it to the
clerk of the Circuit Court or the clerk of the Criminal Court of
Baltimore city; the justice shall, after proper proceedings, order
a father of an illegitimate child, on his representation, to pay to
the mother the sum of $30 per annum for seven years for the
support of such bastard; justices of the peace shall have power
to commit vagrants and disorderly persons to the House of Cor-
rection, House of the Good Shepherd, House of Reformation,
House of Refuge, Industrial Home for Colored Girls and St.
Mary's Industrial School for Boys; justices shall destry the head*
of crows, held for county, and issue certificates of their destruc-
tion; justices shall decide disputes growing out of estrays of
cattle and vessels adrift; they shall decide ownership and adjudge
costs; justices of the peace, in any of the contiguous counties,
may issue permits as prescribed to fish in the Patuxent river;
justices may decide the single question affecting real estate, of
the length of the lease in cases of a tenant holding over term;
upon information, on oath, of any persons violating the oyster
law, a justice may summon a posse comitatus, if necessary, and
take possession of the offender and his vessel, and shall have
general power to hear and determine all matters arising there-