JUSTICES OF THE
        PEACE

    Justices of the peace to take security from free negroes,
&c. emigrating to this state, for their departure
within two weeks, or to commit them to gaol, &c.
—Empowered to have slaves apprehended and punished
for erecting fish dams, &c. in Monocacy, below
Pipe Creek,
—May give licenses annually to free negroes to keep,
each, one dog,
—May give them certificates of being orderly and
peaceable persons, to enable them to carry a gun,
—To commit them, if found in tumultuous meetings
of negroes, &c. unless the enter into recognizance for
their appearance,
    Acknowledgments of deeds, &c. which had been
made before two justices, declared valid, &c.
—To be made before any two in their county,
    Any two justices of the peace authorised, (in the recess
of the orphans courts,) to have the children of
paupers or vagrants brought before them, and bound
out as apprentices,
—Also the children of lazy, indolent, and worthless
free negroes,
    The acts of justices of the peace in Allegany county,
holding or having held offices of trust or profit under
the United States since the 4th of November 1799, declared
valid as if they had not held such office,
—Same as to the official acts of any justices of the
peace who held offices under the United States,
    Any one justice of the peace empowered to determine
controversies where the debt, &c. does not exceed
fifty dollars, as before, when it did not exceed ten
pounds,
—Directions as to supersedeas if exceeding ten
pounds,
—The supersedeas to be taken by the justice who
rendered the judgment, and no other, if living in the
county, and acting as such,
—Each justice to keep a docket and enter his proceedings,
and to furnish the parties with copies of judgments,
on which any other justice may issue execution,
—On failure to keep such docket, &c. whereby the
debt may be lost, the justice to satisfy the same,
—Fees allowed for probats,
—No mileage or journey fee to be allowed,
    Nothing in this act to deprive justices of the peace of
any power or authority vested in them relative to free
negroes or mulattoes, or negro or mulatto slaves,
    Justices of the peace to enter judgments in such
manner as will carry interest from the date,
    Fines for insuring lottery tickets, &c. to be recovered
before justices of the peace as small debts are,
    Justices of the peace authorised to issue executions
in the case therein mentioned on judgments under the
act of 1791, ch. 67,
    Fines under the act to preserve the breed of fish in
Baltimore, to be recovered before a justice of the peace,
and slaves punished by his order,
    Duties of justices of the peace as to runaways,
    On assignment of a judgment confessed before a justice
of the peace, with stay of execution, a demand by
the assignee on the principal debtor necessary for obtaining
an execution, unless such debtor shall have removed,
    Duty of justices of the peace as to arms held in the
militia,
    The militia, or any part thereof, to be ordered out
when any two justices of the peace shall require, and
state in writing that they have good reason to believe

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