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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

shall bo admitted accordingly, and such admission shall entitle
him to admission to practise in any county court of this state,
or in the court of chancery.

*1791, ch..
67.

CHAFFER 271.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the
recovery of Small Debts.

Justices of
the peace
authorized
to issue
fieri facias.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, a fieri facias, venditioni
exponas or capias ad satisfaciendum may be issued by any
justice of the peace in this state, on a short copy of a judg-
ment rendered by any other justice of the peace in any county
in this state, in the same manner as is now the practice on a
short copy of a judgment by a single justice of the peace residing

Proviso.

in the same county: Provided always, that the said short copy
be certified by the clerk of the county court, and the seal of
office be thereto annexed.

CHAPTER 274.
AN ACT to Regulate Bail in Certain Cases.

Constables
authorized
to take
bond, &c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That upon every arrest made by any constable, on any warrant
issued in virtue of an act of assembly for the speedy recovery
of small debts out of court, and to repeal the acts of assembly
therein mentioned, and the several supplements thereto, it shall
be lawful for the constable making the arrest to take bond from
the person arrested, in a sum not exceeding double the amount
of the debt or damages in dispute, conditioned for his appear-
ance before a justice of the peace of the same county, to be
named in the said condition, on the return day of the warrant
to answer the suit of the plaintiff or plaintiffs ; and in case of

To impri-
son in case
of failure.

refusal to give such bond, with sufficient security, such con-
stable may lodge such person in the common jail of the county,
to be safely kept by the sheriff until the return day of the
warrant.

Plaintiff
may sue on
such bond.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the plaintiff or plaintiffs,
their executors or administrators, may sue in their own name,
for their use, any such bond, before any justice of the peace,
without regard to the amount of the penalty thereof, in manner
as small debts are recoverable ; and may recover thereon the
amount, and no more, of the debt or claim of such plaintiff or
plaintiffs, on proof, to be made as in case of the original cause

Proviso,

of action ; Provided however, that if the defendant shall, before
judgment recovered on the bond, appear to the original case,
the proceedings on the bond shall cease on payment of the plain-
tiff's costs by the defendant in the proceedings; and that said