1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 201

county of this State, shall be so appointed as that there

shall be three at least always resident in each election

district, and it shall he the duty of the Governor and

Council to select, appoint and assign three of the said

Justices of the Peace in each election district, to be

justices of a court to be held in said election district,

in the manner hereinafter provided, which said justi-

ces when so appointed and assigned, shall be styled in

Styled district jus

their commission District Justices, and before they

tices

shall act as such and during their continuance in of-

fice, they shall reside within the election district for

which they are appointed, and each of the said district

justices, out of court, shall have and exercise, through-

Their powers

out their respective counties, all the powers, duties

and jurisdiction of other justices of the peace therein,

and also such further and other jurisdiction, within

their respective districts, as is hereinafter given and

provided.

District court

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said district

justices, or any two of them shall constitute and hold

a court, to be styled the District Court, in the several

and respective election districts, to which they shall be

Monthly

appointed and assigned, at least once in every month,

on such days and at such places, within the several

election districts, as the said district justices or a ma-

jority of them, shall for their respective districts, fix

and ascertain, and it shall be the duty of the said dis-

trict justices as soon after their appointment and qual-

ification as may be, and so from time to time as the

public convenience may in their judgment require, to

To designate time and place oi hold-

fix and designate the most suitable and convenient days,

ing court

and place or places in each election district, for hold-

ing the said district courts at least once in every

month; and it shall be the duty of the said district

justices, on the several days and at the places so as

aforesaid fixed and designated, to meet and hold the

said district courts, and the said district justices or

Jurisdiction assign-

any two of them, so met, shall have jurisdiction over

ed

and may take cognizance of all cases whatever, now

within the jurisdiction or cognizance of a single or

two justices of the peace, and 'in all like or similar

cases, where the debt or damages laid or claimed shall