1835

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

they may or shall respectfully attend the sittings of

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the said courts, to be paid to them or their order by

their respective chief justices out of any monies by

them received, as also hereinbefore provided, and each

Annual report of attendance— and

of the said chief justices of the said district courts in

of fees collected

the several counties in this State, shall furnish to the

. levy court or commissioners of the tax, of the respec-

tive counties, on or before the first day of June, in the

year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty -seven,

and annually thereafter, a full and fair statement with

an affidavit of the truth thereof annexed, setting forth

the number of days which each of the said district justi-

ces may have attended the meeting of their respective

district courts, and the whole amount of fees by them

Payment over of balance

respectively received; and each of the said chief justi-

ces shall pay over to the said levy courts or commis-

sioners of the county, the balance remaining in their

hands, if any after retaining for themselves respective-

ly, and the several other district justices in their re-

spective districts the sum allowed them for their servi-

ces under the provisions of this act, and all sums so

received by the said levy courts or commissioners of

How to be dispo-

the county, shall be by them disbursed and appropria-

sed of

ted in extra allowances to the said district justices or

otherwise, as they in their discretion may think best;

In case of defici-

and if the monies received by the said chief justice,

ency

shall not have been sufficient to pay the per diem al-

Payment and levy authorised

lowances aforesaid, the levy court or county commis-

sioners of the county shall annually pay to the justices,

such sums. as shall be requisite to make up the full

amount of such allowances, to be levied and collected as

county charges are.

May give judg-

SEC. 25. And be it enacted, That from and after

ment against plaintiff of de-fendant

the passage, of this act, it shall and may be lawful for

the said district courts to enter judgment in all cases

of which they may have cognizance, against either

plaintiif or defendant, for such sum as to them may

appear just and right, with such costs as may have

accrued in the prosecution of the case, which said

judgment when so rendered, if in favor of the defen-

dant, shall be of equal effect and avail as if the same

were rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and it shall and