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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

ter, be admitted as evidence to prove such power of attorney,
receipt, acquittance, release, or final discharge ; but every such
power of attorney, receipt, acquittance, release, or final dis-
charge, shall remain and be retained, and preserved in the office
of such register of wills, and shall not be delivered to any per-
son or persons whomsoever.

CHAPTER 306.
AN ACT relating to the Recovery of Small Debts.
See 1791, ch. 68, ante page 277.

Appeals
from judg-
ment of jus-
tice of
peace not to
be dismissed

Exception.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That no appeal from a judgment rendered by a justice of the
peace, shall be dismissed because of a petition not being filed,
except on default of the appellant to file the same after rule laid
in court, requiring the filing of it, and two days, (inclusive of
day of service,) notice to appellant of such rule; and every
case of such appeal not dismissed on default as aforesaid, shall

Such ap-
peal shall
be beard.

be heard and determined if the petition shall be filed at any
time before the hearing and trial, in the same manner and to
the same effect as if the said petition had been filed in the
time now required by law.

Judgments
of justices
of the peace
in case of
pilots not to
be set aside
for want of
form, &c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no judgment rendered by a
justice of the peace, on a judgment, or decision of the board of
examiners of pilots, shall be reversed or set aside for want of
form in such judgment or decision of said board ; nor for want
of averments in such judgment or decision necessary to render
the same full and precise as to parties, claim, dates or other par-
ticulars, if by examination of any of the board or other persons
as witnesses, the said defects can be supplied, and said matters

Rule for
deciding
such
appeals.

and particulars ascertained — and in all the said cases of defec-
tive judgment or decisions of such board, the court, on the
appeal, taking said judgment or decision, as pritna facie evi-
dence of the demand in question, shall proceed to adjudge the
said cases according to the circumstances and equity thereof.

Act of 1824
eh. 189, ex-
tended to
Baltimore
county.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the act,
entitled, an act relating to justices of the peace in the city of
Baltimore, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-four, chapter one hundred and eighty-nine, be and they
are hereby extended and declared to apply to the justices of the

(*and)

peace in [*] for Baltimore county, out of the limits of said city ;

Proviso.

Provided however, that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to confer in the premises, on said justices, any jurisdic-

Acts rela-
ting to cer-
tiorari ex-
tended to
Baltimore
county.

tion exclusive of Baltimore county court; and the provisions of
the acts of assembly, relating to writs of certiorari for judg-
ments of the justices of the peace in and for the city of Balti-
more, are hereby extended to judgments rendered by justices