1774

CAROLINE COUNTY.

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,

Issue of
executions,

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

Canes over
f 50 to bo
returned to
county
court.

SEC. 4. 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
Caroline 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.
1810, ch. 50, repealed by 1824, ch.53, ante page 803.

NEGROES AND PEOPLE OF COLOUR.
See 1831, ch. 281, ante page 1035.

ORPHANS COURT.
A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to regulate the Compensation
of Jurors, Judges of the Orphans Court, Judges of the Levy Court,
Commissioners of the Tax, and Witnesses, for Caroline County, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter two
hundred and eight.— 1836, ch. 284.

Per diem
$2.

SEC. 1. lie it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be
lawful for the judges of the orphans court of Caroline county,
to receive, in lieu of the per diem allowance now received by
them, the sum of two dollars for each day that each of them

Mileage.

shall serve in that capacity, and in addition thereto, an allow-
ance of five cents per mile, for every mile that his place of
residence shall be distant from Denton, the place where the
said orphans court is held ; Provided nevertheless, that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed, as to allow the said
judges mileage in returning home.

Repeal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the act of
eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter two hundred and
eight, as relates to the orphans court of Caroline county be,
and the same are hereby repealed.