1940

LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1836.

CHAPTER 275.

AN ACT, Supplemental to the Act, entitled, an Act to establish Magis-

trates* Courts in the several Counties in this State, and to prescribe their

jurisdiction, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-

hve, chapter two hundred and one.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, doubts are entertained as to the true construction

of the duties of the chief justices of the several district courts, in

the delivery of papers and proceedings, in cases to be sent from

one district court to another, as provided in the twenty-first

section of the original act ; therefore,

Court de-

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

liver papers
to constable

That in all cases of suits, complaints or prosecutions, being

removed for trial from one district court to another of the same

county, as provided for in the twenty-first section of the act to

which this is a supplement, it shall be the duty of the chief

justice of the court before whom said suit, complaint or prose-

cution has been removed, to deliver all the papers and proceed-

ings of the case to a constable of the county, to be delivered to

the chief justice of the district court to which said suit, com

plaint or prosecution, shall have been oidered for trial.

His duty to

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That U shall be the duty of the

deliver

constable to whom said papers and proceedings are sent, to

deliver the same without delay to the chief justice of the dis-

trict court to whom the same shall be directed.

His fee

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That for said service the constable

therefor

shall be entitled to the sum of fifty cents, to be paid by the party

petitioning for said removal.

Restriction

SEC. 4. And bo it enacted, That the executive shall not

repealed

hereafter be restricted to the list of justices of the peace 111

making appointments of justices of the said district courts, and

every person appointed and commissioned a justice of any of

Ex-officio a

said district couits, shall by virtue of his commission as a dis-

justice of

trict justice, possess all the powers and authority of a justice of

the peace

the peace, in addition to those of a district justice.

Commis-

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the commissions to the said

sions shall

district justices, shall hereafter be sent by the executive to the

bo transmit-
ted to coun-

clerks of the several county courts, and it shall be the duty of

ty clerk

said clerks to record the said commissions, sent to them, in pro-

Record
directed

per record books, for that purpose, and after recording the same,

Deliver

to deliver the originals to the justices, or some one of the jus-

over.

tices named 111 said commissions respectively, upon application

for the same.

CHAPTER 289.

Clerk shall

AN ACT relating to Appeals.

note the
amount of

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

costs

That in all cases hereafter of records transmitted to the court of