TALBOT COUNTY. 4599

such Court to answer such charge, and the said Justice shall return said
recognizance (if there be one) or commitment, with the names of and
residences of the witnesses for the prosecution endorsed thereon forthwith
to the Clerk of said Court, who shall place such case on the Appeal Docket
of said Court and issue subpoenas for the witnesses named by the Justice,
and the case shall then be tried in said Court on the information or war-
rant.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 121. 1886, ch. 355. 1920, ch. 647.

289. It shall be lawful for any resident of Talbot County to be sued
before any Justice of the Peace of said County whenever the debt or dam-
age claimed to be due, or fair value of the property or thing in contro-
versy does not exceed Two Hundred Dollars; but should said suit be
brought outside of the Election District in which such person resides,
said defendant shall have the right to have said case removed for trial
before some Justice of the Peace of the Election District in which such
defendant resides, and if there be no Justice of the Peace in such District
then said suit may be removed before a Justice of the Peace of some other
district for trial, but no removal shall be permitted in suits brought within
the election district wherein the contract was made and such cause of
action did originate. Where suits are removable, as herein provided,
written notice of such desire for removal shall be filed with the Justice of
the Peace before whom said suit is brought by said defendant, or by some
person on his or her behalf, not later than five days after the return day
named in the writ of summons issued in each case and provided further,
that a good and sufficient bond shall be filed, at the time of filing the afore-
said notice, by the defendant, or on his or her behalf, in double the amount
of the plaintiff's claim or double the value of the property in controversy,
and conditioned upon the payment of any judgment that may be recovered
against said defendant in such action, or that may be recovered upon
appeal therefrom to the Circuit Court for Talbot County. Upon the filing
of the notice and bond as provided in this Act said Justice of the Peace
shall immediately transmit all papers in said case for trial to a Justice
of the Peace in the Election District in. -which the defendant resides, or
if there be no Justice of the Peace in such District, then to a Justice of
some other Election District for trial, and the designation of the Justice
to whom such case shall be removed for trial as hereinbefore provided
shall be, in the discretion of the Justice before whom said case originates.+

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 122. 1860, Art. 20, sec. 94.

290. A judgment of a justice of the peace for said county shall be a
lien on the lands of the defendant therein, in said county, from the day
on which a copy theireof is filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit
court for said county, and the said clerk may issue execution thereon, as
on judgments of said court.

"Sec. 3, ch. 385, 1914, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.
tSec. 2, ch. 647, 1920, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.