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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1639.

officer serving the said writ is hereby authorized and required
to administer an oath or affirmation, that they will truly and
impartially appraise the same property at the sum or price they
shall believe it to be really worth, and if such appraisement
shall exceed one hundred dollars, all further proceedings shall
cease, and the plaintiff or party demanding the said writ, shall
be liable for and pay all costs and charges which may have
accrued thereon ; and the said officer shall return the said writ
to the said justice, certifying thereon that the value of the pro-
perty exceeds the jurisdiction of the said justice, and he shall
return the schedule and appraisement of the property annexed
to the said writ and return.

Jurisdiction
in cases of
attachment

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said justice of the peace
shall have jurisdiction over and take cognizance of all cases of
attachments, where the amount claimed to be due does not ex-
ceed the sum of one hundred dollars, exclusive of costs and
interest, in the same manner and to the same extent as the jus-
tices of the district court could under the act, entitled, an act
to establish magistrates' courts in the several counties of this
state, and to prescribe their jurisdiction, passed December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter two hundred
and one.

Authorized
to issue ne-
cessary
process and
writ.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the justices of the peace
aforesaid, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue all
and every process and writ to carry out and effect the objects
of this act, that are now issued by justices of the peace, or any
court in this state, in like cases.

Repeat.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That all acts inconsistent with
this act, are hereby repealed, so far as the same relate to Cecil
county.

AN ACT, regulating the manner in which Constables' Bonds shall be
taken in Cecil County, and for other purposes. — 1839, ch.307.

Penalty of
constables'
bond to to
$2,000.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, the bonds of all constables
in Cecil county, shall be taken in the penalty of two thousand
dollars, and that in all cases in which constables' bonds have
been taken in the penal sum of two thousand dollars since the
passage of the act of December session, eighteen hundred and
thirty-eight, chapter two hundred and twenty-two, entitled,
an act, to repeal an act to establish magistrates' courts, in the
several counties of this state, and to prescribe their jurisdiction,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five,
chapter two hundred and one, together with all the supple-
ments thereto, so far as the same relates to Cecil county, be
and the same are hereby declared to be valid and effectual as
if said act had not been passed.