THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

Said, shall in any manner be effected by the subsequent

CHAP. 397.

organization of said courts; And further provided, that

this act shall not affect any district in any county

in which saitl court shall have been organized.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the se-.

Record qualifica-

veral county courts of this State, shall receive and re-

tion of the justieet

cord the qualifications of the justices of the magis-

trates' courts in the manner as the qualifications of

justices of the peace are now required by law.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall he and it

Clerks annually to

is hereby made the duty of the clerk of the several

transmit lists of justices that

county courts in this State, to make out a list of the

qualify to the executive

names of all persons who have qualified or may here-

after qualify as justices of the magistrates' courts, and

to transmit a list of the same to the Governor and

Council at their next meeting thereafter, and to give a

Certificate to

certificate to any plaintiff who may obtain a judgement

Plaintiff

in any of the said district courts, and it is hereby pro-

Case of not quali-

vided that in all cases where any person has or may

fying in 30 days, void

hereafter refuse or fail to qualify and file a ertificate

of such qualification with clerk of the county court,

within thirty days after said justice shall have received

notice of their appointment as such, his appointment

shall be considered void and of no effect, and the Go-

vernor and Council are hereby required to fill all such

vacancy or vacancies that shall then exist.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That an additional court

Additional court a

shall be instituted and organized in the village of Port

Port Deposited

Deposits, in Cecil county, with power to take cogni-

zance of all such cases as may lawfully be brought be-

fore it originally in the limits of said village, together

with such suits in the third and fourth election districts

as the parties may wish to have tried by said court,

and the Governor and Council be and they are hereby

required to appoint three additional justices for said

court, who shall immediately upon the receipt of their

several commissioners proceed to organise said court,

and shall receive the same per diem compensation, and

be governed in all respects as the other courts estab-

lished by the act to which this is a supplement.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the Magistrates'

Not to have cogni-

Courts shall not bo construed to have jurisdiction in

zance of assault with intent to

cases of assaults with intent to commit rape.

commit rape