4230 ARTICLE 18.

stables; and for election district number seven, three justices of the peace
and two constables.

1900, ch. 674.

257. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County are hereby
authorized and empowered to appoint, in addition to the two constables
now provided for by law, one other constable in the seventh election dis-
trict of said county, who shall reside and have his office in the town of

Crumpton, in said district.

1892, ch. 480.

258. The county commissioners of Queen Anne's County are hereby
authorized and empowered to appoint one additional constable for the
third and sixth election district of Queen Anne' County jointly, to reside
at or near Star in said county.

1890, ch. 33.

259. The county commissioners of Queen Anne's county are hereby
authorized and empowered to appoint an additional constable for the sec-
ond precinct of the fifth (Queenstown) election district of Queen Anne's

county.

1894, ch. 637.

260. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's county are hereby
authorized and empowered to appoint, in addition to two constables now
provided for by law, one other constable in the sixth district of said county,
who shall reside and have his office in the town of Queen Anne's, in said
district.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 187. 1864, ch- 135. 1910, ch. 3 (p. 1067).

261. Whenever a Justice of the Peace of said county shall issue a
summons for a defendant residing in a different election district from that
in which the said Justice of the Peace issuing the summons resides, he
shall, upon the written demand of said defendant or his duly constituted

attorney, filed* with said Justice of the Peace within three days after the
service of the summons, transmit the papers in said cause to some Justice
of the Peace in the election district where the defendant resides, who shall
try the same.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 188. 1870, ch. 434.

262. The justices of the peace in and for Queen Anne's, Prince
George's, Kent, Charles, Dorchester, Caroline, Carroll, Harford, Wor-
cester, Anne Arundel, and Calvert counties, shall have jurisdiction over
and may take cognizance of all actions of assault and battery in which the
damages claimed do not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars; and also
criminal jurisdiction in all cases of assault and battery committed in said

*"File" evidently intended.