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or them therefor, or in default thereof, the said party or parties to be committed to the County Jail until such recognizance be given.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all fines or pen- alties imposed by this Act shall be divided, one- half to the informer, and the other half to be applied to the improvement of the public roads in said county.	To be divi- ded.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 30, 1868.	In force.
CHAPTER 443. AN ACT to add new Sections to Article fifty-one of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled "Justices of the Peace," relating to the liens of executions issued by Justices of the Peace.
SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Article fifty-one of the Code of Public General Laws be amended by adding thereto the following Sections :	Amended.
66. Hereafter no execution issued upon a judg- ment rendered by any of the Justices of the Peace within any of the counties of this State or in the city of Baltimore, and levied upon any real estate or leasehold property of the defendant in such judgment, shall be a lien upon the real estate or leasehold property upon which it is so levied unless at or before the time of issuing such execution the plaintiff in such judgment shall file the same with the Clerk of the Circuit Court in which the de- fendant resides, or with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, if the defendant resides in said city, to be recorded by him in a book kept for that purpose, for which he shall receive twenty- five cents in each case, which sum shall be recov-	Execution on judgment.