1732

CALVERT COUNTY.

not exceed fifty dollars, upon which copy any justice of the
peace of said county may issue execution as is now provided
by law, in case of the resignation, removal from office, or death
of a justice of the peace, and it shall further be the duty of the
said clerk, upon the application of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, his,

Issues
thereon au-
thorized —
proceedings

her, or their agent or attorney, to issue execution upon all
judgments where the sum for which the same is rendered,
exceeds fifty dollars, directed to the sheriff of said county and
returnable to the next succeeding term of Calvert county court,
in like manner and by like process, as if the said judgment had
been originally recovered in said county court.

Cases over
$30.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in all cases where writs of
capias ad respondendum, attachment, capias ad satisfaciendum,
or fieri facias, issued by either of the said district courts, for
the recovery of a sum exceeding fifty dollars, may be in the
hands of the sheriff, or any constable of said county, and not
returned, it shall be the duty of the said sheriff, or constable,
as the case may be, to return the same to the next succeeding
term of Calvert county court; and the clerk of said court, shall
docket the same, and such proceedings shall be had thereon, as
if the said process had originally issued from said county court.

METHODIST CAMP MEETINGS,
1816, ch. 25, and 1821, ch. 75, merged in 1824, ch. 53, ante page 803

NEGROES.
As ACT for the better protection of Slaveholders in the several Counties
therein mentioned — 1817, ch 227.
See ante page 1368.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to prohibit the emigration oi
Free Negroes into this State.— 1823, ch. 161.
Merged in 1831, ch. 323, ante page 1068.

PATROL,
AN ACT to establish a Patrol in Calvert County. — 1822, ch. 85.

Patrol

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this law, it shall and may be
lawful for any two or more justices of the peace for Culvert
county, upon application by three or more judicious persons,
to issue a requisition for as many inhabitants now subject to
militia duty, as they may think necessary, not exceeding fifteen
in any one company, to be denominated a patrol, the said jus-
tices of the peace to appoint two discreet persons of the said
patrol, under whose direction they shall proceed to make dili-
gent search through the said neighbourhood or district, as
prescribed in the authority, for a period of not less than four
hours, nor more than eight hours, and to disperse all unlawful