JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

more at any time within sixty days from the rendition thereof,
which supersedeas shall stay execution for twelve months
thereafter.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That each justice of the peace in
and for the city aforesaid, may and shall have jurisdictiori over!
and may try and decide all claims for taking, detaining, destroy-
ing or injuring any goods, chattels, or other personal property;
and all claims for cutting, pulling, digging up, carrying away,
destroying or injuring any fruit, shrubbery, grain, vegetables,
fences or part of a fence ; and also all claims against tenants or
occupiers of houses or tenements or other property, by the
landlord, or owner for any mis-Use, injury or damage to the
same, caused or wilfully permitted by such tenants or occu-
piers ; and also of all claims of tenants and occupiers against
landlords and owners, for not repairing in any of the said men-
tioned cases, where there is a contract for repairs, and the
amount of claim, shall not exceed fifty dollars, and also of all
claims of tenants and occupiers against any trespasser or tres-
passers, for injury to the premises in their tenure and occu-
pancy where the amount of damage does not exceed fifty
dollars.

Further
jurisdiction.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said justices shall have
jurisdiction in all cases of claims on appeal bonds, and on con-
stables' bonds, as well against the sureties as the principal;
Provided, that the claim shall not exceed one hundred dollars
exclusive of costs.

Jurisdiction
in appeal
bonds.
Constable!
bonds.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said justices shall have
jurisdiction in all cases of replevin, where the goods and chat-
tels intended to be replevied, do not exceed the value of fifty
dollars ; and that no such justice of the peace shall issue any
Writ of replevin, under and by virtue of this act, without first
requiring of the party or parties applying for the same to give
bond with security, to be approved of by the said justice in
double the amount of the value of goods and chattels intended
to be replevied with the like condition, as is now inserted in
replevin bonds.

Replevin.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any
justice of the peace in said city, in any of the aforesaid cases;
or in any case of debt or damages whatever to issue a warrant
or execution, except on application for the same by the plaintiff
or his attorney in person, or by writing, accompanied with the
cause or causes of action in said case ; and if any justice of
the peace of said city, shall issue a warrant or execution con-
trary to the provisions of this act; or if any constable shall
serve the same knowingly, such justice or constable shall be
liable to indictment in Baltimore city court; dud on conviction,
shall be disabled from holding his respective office.

Penalty for
issuing
process
without
application.