4438 ARTICLE 20.

peace and such number of constables not exceeding three in any district as
the Board of County Commissioners in its discretion may appoint.*

1892, ch. 476.

214. The Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
is hereby authorized to appoint an additional jushce of the peace for Som-
erset County, to be a resident of Princess Anne di strict and near Habuah
Postoffice in said county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 133. 1880, ch. 113.

215. A certified copy of any judgment of a justice of the peace of said
county, may be recorded in the clerk's office in said county, and when so
recorded shall be a lien upon the real estate of the defendant, and upon
the written order of 'the plaintiff or his attorney, said clerk may issue
execution upon such judgment, directed to the sheriff of said county, as
upon judgments rendered in the circuit court for said county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 134. 1860, Art. 19, sec. 67.

216. The said clerk shall keep a separate record book, with an index
stating doubly the names of the plaintiff and defendant, and shall be en-
titled to twenty-five cents for filing, recording and indexing every such
copy of a judgment.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 135. 1884, oh. 510.

217. The several justices of the peace of Somerset, Dorchester, Mont-
gomery, Prince George's, St. Mary's, Talbot, Howard, Caroline, Kent,
Charles, Calvert, Harford, Garrett, Washington, Wicomico, Anne Arun-
del and Allegany counties, shall have, in addition to the jurisdiction which
they now possess, and which may be conferred upon them by or under the
laws of this State, jurisdiction concurrent with that exercised by the circuit
courts for said counties in all cases of assault without any felonious intent;
and in all cases of assault and battery, and in all cases of petit larceny,
when the value of the property stolen does not exceed the sum of five dol-
lars, and in all misdemeanors not punishable by confinement in the peni-
tentiary, which may be committed within their respective jurisdictions;
and shall have jurisdiction in all prosecutions or proceedings for the re-
covery of any penalty for doing or omitting to do any act, the doing' of
which, or the omission to do which, is made punishable under the laws of
this State, within their said jurisdiction, by any pecuniary fine or pen-
alty or by imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland house of correction,"
all of which acts or omissions are hereby declared to be criminal offences
and the said justices shall have power to issue all process and to do all
acts which may be necessary to the exercise of their said jurisdiction, and
may try and determine all cases whereof they may have jurisdiction, and
may pronounce judgment and sentence therein in the same manner and to
the same extent as the circuit court for said counties could in such cases,

*Sec. 2, ch. 12, 1906 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.