GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

Maryland, passed at December session, eighteen hundred

CHAP. 291.

and twenty-nine, entitled, " An act to limit the time for

taking appeals from magistrate's judgments ;"— Therefore,

Sec. 1. Be it enacted. That it shall and may be law-

Appeal allowed

ful to and for any person or persons, or body corporate.

from magistrate

judgments.

to enter and prosecute any appeal from the judgment of

any justice of the peace of this state where such appeal is

now allowed by law; Provided, Such appeal be entered and

If made at the

prosecuted, to and at the county court, to beheld next after

firstt suceeding
county court.

the rendition of such judgment, or to be taken at any time

within sixty days from and after the rendition of such judg-

ment ; but, no such appeal shall operate as a supcrsedeas to

Not to operate as

any execution upon any such judgment; unless the party ap-

a supersedeas with-
out bond being

pealing give bond with security as already provided for.

given.

CHAPTER 291.

An act for the relief of sundry Poor Persons, in the several

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counties therein mentioned.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Lev y authorised.

the levy court or county commissioners, as the case may

be, of Prince George's, Charles, Queen Ann's, Calvert,

Harford, Frederick, Washington, and Cecil counties, be,

and they are hereby severally authorised, directed and em-

powered at their annual meeting, so long as they shall see

cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property, of sail

counties for the use of the several persons hereinafter men-

tioned, any money not exceeding the several sums annexed

to their respective names, at their discretion, except other

wise directed by this act, viz: in Prince George's county

On P. George's

for Ann Padgett and her five children, thirty dollars; for

coutny.

John Booth, thirty dollars, payable to William Tovvnshend

or order, for Elizabeth Hazzard, twenty dollars; for Vin-

cent J. Powers, twenty five dollars, payable to Benjamin

E. Gantt, or order; for John Burnell, twenty dollars; for

Mary Ann P. Collins, twenty dollars; for Jane Wickam

twenty five dollars, for Miah Kidwell and wife each, fifteen

dollars; for Mary Ridwell, thirty dollars; for Deboral

Simpson, thirty five dollars; for Mary Ann Hill, daughte

of James Hill, twenty dollars, payable to John W. Ward

or order; in Charles cdunty, for Jane Louisa Parker, thirty

Charles.

dollars, payable to Joseph A. Turner, or order; for Mary

Mudd, thiity dollars, payable to Francis Montgomery, or

order; for Francis Goodrick, forty dollars; for Margaret