1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP, 201.

and authority to punish by fine and imprisonment, all

persons who shall interrupt the proceedings of the same

Case of contempt

by violence or disorder in their immediate presence,

and when none of the said justices shall attend at any

monthly meeting, or on any day during any session at

a monthly meeting, the court shall be considered as

adjourned from day to day until a meeting shall take

place as aforesaid, either during such session or on the

day for the next monthly meeting, and the justices

shall make entries on the minutes of the court accord-

ingly.

Judgments to be

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all judgments

a lien

rendered by the said district courts shall be alien on

all lands and real estate of the defendant, lying with-

in the county wherein the same judgment was render-

ed, to all intents and purposes, as much as if said

judgment had been rendered in the county court from

the time when a short copy of any such judgment shall

When recorded

have heen filed and recorded in the office of the clerk

of the same county wherein the same judgment is ren-

dered, and not before; from which record the said clerk

Separate record

shall keep a separate record book with an index Stating

Compensation to

doubly the names of the plaintiff and defendant, and

clerk &c.

the said clerk shall receive for filing, recording and

indexing every such copy of a judgment, the sum of

twenty "five cents and no more, and it shall be lawful

for the said clerk, on the application of the plaintiff to

Execution thereon

issue execution thereon, directed to the sheriff, and re-

turnable before the county court, in the same manner

as if the said judgment had been obtained in the said

county court, and shall receive his usual fees for such

service.

Stay of execution

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That all judgments

rendered by the said district court, may be stayed and

Superseded

superseded hefore any one district justice of the court,

wherein the said judgments were rendered, and within

the same period, in the same manner, form, and for the

same length of time as judgments now rendered by a

Proviso

single justice of the peace, provided a fair and exact

copy of the said supersedeas, to be rendered by the

justices by or before whom the same shall have been

taken and confessed, shall be returned by the defen-