ART. 51.] JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 355

11. The clerks to whom such dockets and papers are delivered,
shall keep the same as other records, and shall deliver transcripts
from the dockets or papers so returned to the person applying
for the same.

12. Any justice of the peace of the same county may issue
process of any sort on a copy of another justice's docket, made
by the clerk, if the docket has been delivered to him, that he
might issue if the docket had been kept by himself.

13. The civil jurisdiction of justices of the peace extends to all
cases for the enforcement of contracts, and to obtain redress for
wrongs where the debt or damages claimed shall not exceed one
hundred dollars; to all suits on bonds with penalty exceeding one
hundred dollars, where the sum due and claimed does not exceed
one hundred dollars; to actions of replevin, where the value of
the thing in controversy does not exceed one hundred dollars,
and which value shall be ascertained by appraisers summoned
and sworn by the sheriff or other officer to whom the writ of
replevin is directed; and to all cases of attachment against non-
resident or absconding debtors, where the sum claimed does not
exceed one hundred dollars.

14. But no justice of the peace shall have any jurisdiction in
actions where the title to lands is involved, nor in actions for
slander, for breach of promise to marry, or to enforce any lien
for work or materials furnished.

15. In all actions of replevin, the proceedings before justices
of the peace shall be similar to those in the several Circuit Courts
of this State.

16. In all cases where the amount claimed, or the thing in
action, exceeds the sum or value of fifty dollars, and justices of
the peace have jurisdiction, the several Circuit Courts for the
counties shall have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the
peace.

17. No justice of the peace shall grant any blank summons
or execution to any constable or party; and any justice so
granting a blank summons or execution, shall, on conviction, be
fined not less than one hundred dollars, and not exceeding four
hundred.