CECIL COUNTY.

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Cecil county are authorized to collect such expenses from the
county from which the removal is made ; and an account of
the expenses, with the certificate of thcclerk of Cecil court,
'shall be prima facie evidence of the demand.

AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction of single Justices of the Peace for
Cecil County, and for other purposes. — 1839, ch. 146.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, all single justices of
the peace in and for Cecil county, shall have jurisdiction over
and may take cognizance of all cases, and in like manner as
they now have jurisdiction, where the debt or damages laid or
claimed do not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, exclu-
sive of cost and interest ; and that in all cases heard, adjudged
and determined before any single justice of the peace, when
the debt or damages adjudged and determined to be due, ex-

Jurisdiction
of justices
extended to
$100.

ceed the sum of fifty dollars, they are hereby authorized and
empowered to charge double the fees now allowed by law to
single justices of the peace, in like causes, and that each party
shall have and exercise the same right of appeal to the county
court, and in the same manner as is now allowed, from the
judgment of single justices of the peace.

Justices'
fees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That they shall have jurisdiction
over and take cognizance of all cases of replevin, where the
value of the property in dispute, when appraised on the service
of the writ of replevin, as herein after provided, does not ex-
ceed the sum of one hundred dollars, in which action of reple-
vin, the said single justice may, besides adjudging a return of
the property, award damages as in a county court may be reco-

Jurisdiction
in cases of
replevin.

vered in cases of replevin ; Provided however, that whenever
a writ of replevin shall be demanded from any justice of the
peace, according to the jurisdiction herein given to single jus-
tices of the peace, it shall be the duty of said justice, before
he issues the same, to require and take from the party demand-
ing such writ of replevin, a bond to the party holding the pro-
perty, with one or more securities, whom the said justice shall
in his conscience believe to be worth double the value of the
specific articles of property intended to be replevicd, with con-
dition that the party so replevying, his executor or administra-
tor, shall well and truly return the same property to the party
out of whose hands the property shall be so replevicd, his ex-
ecutors, administrators or assigns, in case a return of the same
shall be adjudged by the justice before whom the said writ of
replevin shall be tried, and shall pay all damages and costs
which may be awarded by the said justice ; and upon the ser-
vice of any such writ of replevin, the goods and property shall
be forthwith appraised by two sworn appraisers, to whom the

Proviso.