546 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 385]

co-partnership or incorporation and the genuineness of such
signature shall be deemed to be admitted for the purpose of
said cause, unless the said affidavit shall further state that the
affiant knows or has good reason to believe such allegations of
co-partnership or incorporation to be untrue, or that such signa-
ture was not written by or by the authority of the person whose
signature it purports to be in case any part of the debt or dam-
age claimed be admitted to be due, the plaintiff shall be
entitled forthwith to an entry of judgment therefor, with costs,
in the discretion of the Court, to the time of entry of such
judgment, and if the amount so admitted to be due shall not be
below the jurisdiction of the Court, the plaintiff may at once
have execution therefor, and upon such entry of judgment the
plaintiff may join issue or reply to the pleas as to the disputed
portion. And the case shall be proceeded with as to such
disputed portion in the same manner as if the suit had been
originally instituted for the recovery of the same, and the
Court shall have jurisdiction as to such disputed portion in
all cases where the amount originally claimed shall be within
the jurisdiction of the Court, but if either judgment in the case
be below the jurisdiction of the Court, no execution shall issue
from that Court on the same, and the provisions of section 17
of Article 26 of the Code of Public General Laws shall apply
thereto. Yet if the sum of the two judgments shall equal such
jurisdiction they may then be included in an execution issued
from that Court, provided that the Court for good cause shown
may by its order in writing passed at any time before judgment
extend the time for filing such pleas and affidavits, which exten-
sion shall suspend until the expiration thereof the plaintiff's
right to enter judgment under this section.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a new section be and the
same is hereby added to Article 3 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Baltimore County," sub-title "Circuit
Court," to follow section 41 of said article and to be known
as section 41 A, and to read as follows:

4lA. If the defendant shall dispute the whole or any part
of the plaintiff's demand in any action brought under the
provisions of the three foregoing sections, and upon trial of the
case the plaintiff shall recover for a judgment for any portion
of his demand so disputed, then the plaintiff shall be allowed in
addition to the costs of the suit a reasonable counsel fee to be
fixed by the Court. Said fee not to be more than $100.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from June 1st, 1912.

Approved April 8, 1912.