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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1824.

open court at such term of the said court thereafter as the party
applying for such attachment shall request: Provided, that
wherever such writ is granted, it shall be the duty of the party
obtaining the same to give written notice to the opposite party,
or his counsel, of the time of the return thereof.

Process.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said process
herein provided for, shall be directed to the sheriff or coroner
as the case may be, of the county wherein the person to be
attached resides, and after return is made it shall be lawful for
such process to be renewed from term to term as the case may
require ; Provided however, that notice shall always be given of
any return to the opposite party as aforesaid.

CHAPTER 138.

* 1791, ch.

68.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act for the
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.

Justices of
the peace
try cases of
trespass.

SEC. I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of May next, in all cases where
any injury shall be done to any real property within this state,
for which an action of trespass, quare clausum fregit, might be
maintained under the existing laws of the state, and where the
damages claimed or laid shall not exceed the sum of fifty
dollars, it shall and may be lawful for any one justice of the
peace of the county where the trespass shall be committed, or
where the trespasser may reside, to try, hear and determine the
matter in controversy between the parties, and to give judgment
against the trespasser for such damages, (not exceeding fifty
dollars,) as to the said justice may appear reasonable and just.

Proceed-
ings.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the several justices of the
peace of this state in the administration of this law shall in all
respects, and for all purposes whatever possess the same powers,
and adopt the same mode of proceeding that are given and pre-
scribed by the original act to which this is a supplement, and
the several supplements thereto, in cases depending before the
said justices for the recovery of small debts.

Appeals
allowed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any person who may think
himself or herself aggrieved by any judgment rendered under the
provisions of this act, shall have the same benefit and liberty of
appeal and upon the same terms and conditions, as is allowed
in cases of debts of a similar amount.

May be su-
perseded.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That judgments rendered under
this act, may be superseded in the same manner as other judg-
ments rendered by a justice of the peace may be superseded.