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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1818.

diately to notify the clerk of the county, for the use of which
the said deposits shall have been made, which money shall be
subject to the order of the justices of the levy court of the
county aforesaid.

Persons
convicted
of enticing
slaves to
run away,
to be con-
fined in
peniten-
tiary.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any free person shall be
convicted for having enticed, persuaded, or assisted any slave or
servant, knowing him or her to be such, to run away from his or
her lawful owner or possessor, and such slave or servant shall
actually run away, or having harboured such runaway slave or
servant, knowing him or her to be such, then such person shall
be liable to indictment in the county court of the county where
he or she resides, or in the city court of Baltimore if he or she
resides in the city of Baltimore, and upon conviction shall
undergo a confinement in the penitentiary not exceeding six
years.

* 1791, ch.

68.

CHAPTER 166.
A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act for the speedy recovery of
Small Debts out of Court, and to repeal the Acts of Assembly therein
mentioned.
See notes to the original act, ante page 277.

In appeals
from a jus-
tice of the
peace coun-
ty courts
may pro-
ceed to
hear and
determine
ceses.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from henceforth, in any case of appeal from the decision
of a justice of the peace to the county court, where two sum-
monses against the appellee shall be returned non est, or one
attachment returned non est, and the said appellee shall not
appear according to the tenor of the second summons, the court
may proceed to hear and determine such case, in the same man-
ner as if the appellee had regularly appeared, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.

Penalty on
justice
granting
blank war-
rants or
executions,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any justice of the peace
in this state shall be convicted in the court of the county where
the fact may be committed, of granting hereafter blank warrants
or executions, under his hand, to any constable or party, he
shall be fined by the court a sum not less than one hundred
dollars, and not exceeding four hundred.

Appeals
from a jus-
tice not to
be dis-
missed be-
cause the
same bad
not been
prayed to
court nest
after rendi-
tion of
judgment.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after the passage
of this act, no appeal, from the judgment of a justice of the
peace to the county court, shall be dismissed, because the same
had not been prayed to the county court next after the rendition
of such judgment, unless the court shall be satisfied that the
appellant had notice of such judgment at least ten days before
the sitting of the said county court.