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the debt or damages claimed shall not exceed one hundred dollars; to all
suits on bonds with penalty exceeding one hundred dollars; where the sum
due and claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars; to actions of re-
plevin where the value of the thing in controversy does not exceed one hun-
dred dollars and which value shall be ascertained by appraisers summoned
and sworn by the sheriff or other officer to whom the writ of replevin is
directed, and to all cases of attachments against non-resident or absconding:
debtors where the sum claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars, and
also to all cases of attachment in any of the cases mentioned in Section 36
of Article 9 where the sum claimed shall not exceed one hundred dollars;
provided that nothing herein contained shall be held or construed to affect
suits pending on April 5, 1900, nor judgments then existing. Justices of
the Peace of Garrett County shall, after June 1, 192Y, have civil jurisdic-
tion in all cases hereinbefore mentioned in this section of this Article in-
stituted after June 1, 1927, and involving amounts not exceeding two hun-
dred dollars.

Criminal Jurisdiction.
12.

Jurisdiction of justice upheld. Art. 56, sec. 202, constitutional. Dougherty
v. Supt, etc., 144 Md. 207.

This section applies to prosecution under art. 99, sec. 102, with right of appeal.
Scope of this section. State v. Beach, 153 Md. 619.

Process and Practice.
35.

Cited but not construed in Commercial Credit Corp. v. Schuck, 151 Md. 373.

Attachments.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 49. 1912, sec. 47. 1904, sec. 45. 1888, sec. 43.
1849, ch. 269, sec. 2. 1929, ch. 404.

49. The plaintiff in an attachment, before execution on any judgment
of condemnation shall be issued, shall give bond to the defendant in such
penalty as the justice of the peace shall direct, not less than double the
amount of the judgment of condemnation, with good and sufficient security
to be approved by the said justice and conditioned to make restitution of
the property so condemned, or the value thereof, and to pay such damages
as may be awarded to the defendant, if the defendant shall at any time
within six months and a day from the date of issuing the attachment ap-
pear, either in person or by his agent, before the justice issuing such at-
tachment, or before some other justice of the same county, and make it
appear that the plaintiff has satisfied the said debt, or show that it ought
not to be paid, or that the said defendant was not indebted to the plain-
tiff at the time of issuing said attachment.