the security of a supersedeas of a judgment taken by a
justice after four years; a confession of judgment
by supersedeas shall be a lien on real estates
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 at-
tachment ; 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 determine, under certain proceedure, 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
necessary 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 discharge
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 pro-
ceedings to a justice in the county in which the father
lives, and he shall require such bond; where any recog-
nizance 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 ille-
gitimate 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 Correction, 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 destroy the heads of crows, held for county,
and issue certificates of their destruction; justices shall