LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1838.

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rizes the charge of pilotage on such vessels outward bound,

sailing under coasting license, as are of the burthen of seventy-

five tons and upwards (except in cases when a pilot or pilots

shall be especially employed to conduct to sea a vessel or ves-

sels of the before mentioned description,) be and the same are

hereby repealed.

Acts in-

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That all acts and parts of acts,

consistent

inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same

herewith
repealed.

are hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall be, and con-

In force.

tinue in force, from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 294.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to establish Magistrate's

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

Jurisdiction, passed December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five,

chapter two hundred and one.

SEC. 1, 2. Relates to Worcester county. See 'Public Local Law.'

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That instead of the fees to be

Rate of fees

charged by the said district justices, in all cases where the

demand in controversy exceeds the sum of fifty dollars by the

sixteenth section of the said original act, they shall respectively

charge, have and be entitled to receive the following fees, to

wit: for writing probats, twelve and a half cents; each oath, or

affirmation, twelve and a half cents; issuing warrant and mak-

ing docket entry, twenty-five cents ; issuing summons, includ-

ing all the witnesses applied for at the same time, twenty-five

cents; rendering judgment on all trial cases, one dollar ; enter-

ing judgment by confession, fifty cents; entering continuance,

twelve and a half cents, to be paid by the party applying for

the same, provided objection be made by the opposite party ;

taking supersedeas, twenty-five cents; filing and entering su-

persedeas, if taken by other justices of the peace, twenty-five

cents ; search or transcript from docket, twelve and a half

cents; taking recognizance, fifty cents; issuing writs of reple-

vin, fifty cents; issuing writ of attachment, fifty cents ; issuing

execution, fifty cents; issuing scire facias, fifty cents; taking

replevin or other bonds, fifty cents.

CHAPTER 303.

AH ACT to enlarge the Powers of the High Court of Chancery, and the

several County Courts, sitting as Courts of Equity, in this State.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Jurisdiction

the high court of chancery, and the several county courts of

given in
cases of part

this state, silting as courts of equity, shall have jurisdiction in

ownership

all controversies and matters of dispute, now pending, or here-

of vessels.

after to be instituted, between part owners of ships, vessels,