JUSTICES OF THE
        PEACE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

KENT COUNTY

that the peace and quiet of the state is likely to be endangered
by an insurrection or opposition to the
laws,
    Money, &c. won or lost by gaming or betting not recoverable
before any court or justice of the peace,
    Any justice of the peace empowered to try cases of
trespass for cutting timber, &c. where the damage doth
not exceed fifty dollars, and to award such damages as
may be assessed by any two or three judicious freeholders,
&c.
    Official acts heretofore performed by any justice of
the peace, while holding an office under the United
States, to have the same effect, &c. as if he had not
been such officer,
    Duty of justices of the peace, in case of resignation
or removal, to deliver their dockets, judicial papers, &c.
to the county clerks, within one month,
—The executors, &c. of those dying, to deliver them
in like manner,
—On transcripts by the clerk, process may be issued
by any justice of the peace,
—Penalty imposed,
    Directions for transmitting the commissions to the
justices of the peace, and for their qualification,
—Penalty on their acting before they qualify,
—On their acceptance (after qualification,) of any
office under the United States, and still acting as justices,
    Acknowledgments of final discharges to trustees may
be taken before a justice of the peace,
    On the allowance of certiorari for removal of the
proceedings of justices of the peace under the act of
1793, ch. 43, &c. bond with security to be given,
    Contracts for hiring or renting stoves to be acknowledged
before a justice of the peace and recorded, in order
to exempt such stoves from execution or distress,
    Persons having purchased servants or slaves without
knowing their title to freedom after a term of years, &c.
not liable to prosecution, if they shall immediately
give information on oath, &c. to some justice of the
peace,
—Bills of sales of such servants or slaves to be acknowledged
before a justice of the peace within twenty
days, &c.

—Duty of such justices on information of their being
purchased for removal,
    Penalty on justices of the peace granting blank warrants
or executions to any constable or party,
    The acts and proceedings of J. Steward and T. Tenant,
as justices in 1818, declared valid, &c.
    Judgments to be recovered before a justice of the
peace under the act concerning the several banks of
this state, for claims under $50,
    Direction as to the appointment of justices of the
peace in each ward in the city of Baltimore; their duties
prescribed, and fees allowed,

                                                   K.

    Regulations concerning the public wharf and ferry
at Chester town,
    An act for the improvement of the public roads,
    The act of 1799, ch. 81, repealed,

    Supplements to the act of 1797, ch. 28, to establish
and regulate a market at Bridge-town, &c.
    A Methodist meeting house to be built on the public
ground at Chester-town,

May 1813 19    3

  1813        84
 

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  1814          1

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  1816      134    1

 ——      187
 

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  1817      112    3
 

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  1818      166    2

 ——      172

 ——      177    1

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  1800        43
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  1804        26
  1817      196

  1801        37