LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1825. 835

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That such debtor shall not be Produce
entitled to such last mentigned discharge, unless he or she discharge,
produces to the chancellor or the county court, as the case may
be, a copy of his or her said personal discharge under said
insolvent laws, certified by the clerk of the court granting said
discharge, and attested by the seal of said court.

CHAPTER 149.

AN ACT to reduce the salary of the Examiner-General of the Eastern
Shore.
SEC. 1. Merged in 1828, ch. 197.
SEC. 2. Repeals 1797, ch. 53, which is omitted in this compilation.

CHAPTER 156.

AN ACT relating to Illegitimate Children.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, the illegitimate child or
children of any female, and the issue of any such illegitimate
child or children be, and they are hereby declared to be able
and capable in law to take and inherit both real and personal
estate from their mother, or from each other, or from the
descendants of each other, as the case may be, in like manner

May inherit
from mater-
nal side.

as if born in lawful wedlock ; Provided, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to alter or change the law respect-
ing illegitimate persons, whose parents marry after the birth of
such persons, and who are by them acknowledged, agreeably
to the seventh section of the act of assembly, passed at Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and twenty, chapter one hundred
and ninety-one.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 158.

AN ACT further to regulate trials before Justices of the Peace.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may
be lawful for any justice of the peace to enter judgment in all
cases of debt, of which he may have cognizance, against either
plaintiff or defendant, for such sum as to him may appear just
and right, with such cost as may have accrued in the prosecu-
tion of the case; which said judgment, when so rendered, if in
favour of the defendant, shall be of equal effect and avail as if
the same were rendered in favour of the plaintiff; and it shall
and may be lawful to enforce the recovery of the same in the
same manner as if the same were rendered in favour of the
plaintiff.

Justice may
give judg-
ment
against
either plain-
tiff or de-
fendant.