LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1823.

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CHAPTER 172.

An additional 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.

*1791, ch
68.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
upon all appeals hereafter prosecuted to the several county
courts of this state, from the judgment of a justice of the peace,
it shall be the duty of the judges of the several county courts,
to give judgment according to the very right of the cause and
the law of the land, without regarding any omission or defect in
the proceedings of the said justice of the peace, and no judg-
ment so as aforesaid appealed from shall be reversed or set aside
for any imperfection, omission, or defect in the proceedings of
said justice of peace, in and relating to the judgment so as
aforesaid appealed from.

CHAPTER 176.

Case of ap-
peals from
magistrate
judgments.

An additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to establish Pilots,
and regulate their fees, made and passed by the General Assembly of
the State of Maryland, at their November session, eighteen hundred and
three.
See notes to the original act, ante page 483.

* 1803, ch.
63.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of March next, it shall not be
lawful for any pilot to charge or receive any greater reward or
compensation for his services, than is herein after expressed, to
wit: for every vessel from sea to Baltimore city, three dollars
and fifty cents, and from said city of Baltimore to sea, two dol-
lars fifty cents, except in the months of December, January and
February, when they shall receive seventy-five cents in addi-
tion for each and every foot of water she shall draw ; and from
the mouth of Potomac to Georgetown, and vice versa, there
shall be an addition of one-fifth to the above rates, and so in
proportion for any less distance from any other port of this state
to sea, or from sea to any other port of this state, such distance
to be fixed by the said board of examiners, but no pilot shall
receive any reward or pay for any supernumerary inches under
six, any thing in any other act or law to the contrary notwith-
standing.

Rate.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That an act, entitled, a further
supplement to the act, entitled, an act to establish pilots and
regulate their fees, passed by the general assembly of the state
of Maryland, the seventeenth of February, eighteen hundred
and nineteen, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Repeal.