ART. 51. ] JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 39

treason or other offences against the State of Maryland, or
against the United States; and I swear this without any mental
reservation or qualification, so help me God. The said oath
shall be administered to the jurors at each term of the court, or
at the commencement of the term of service of every juror, only
once to each juror during such term of service; and no person
shall serve on. jury without having so taken said oath.

Passed March 9, 1864.

ARTICLE LI.

Justices of the Peace.

CIVIL JURISDICTION.

Chapter 170 repeals sections 9, 10, and enacts the following as a substitute therefor:

SEC. 1. Whenever a justice of the peace shall vacate his office
by resignation, removal from office or the expiration of his offi-
cial term, he shall deliver Ms docket, together with all the
notes, bonds, accounts and papers in his possession appertaining
to judgments or whereupon suits have been entered to the
clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which such justice
resides, or to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in case
such justice resides within, the city of Baltimore, within thirty
days after such resignation, removal from office, or expiration
of official term; and any justice of the peace who shall fail to
deliver his docket as agreed, (in case the said docket shall not
have been unavoidably lost or destroyed, ) shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to
a fine of two hundred dollars or to six months imprisonment in
the jail of the county or city, at the discretion of the court.

2. If a justice of the peace dies, the delivery provided for in
the preceding section shall be made by his administrator or
other person in whose hands the said docket and papers may
be within thirty days after receiving the same; and such ad-
ministrator or other person shall be subject to the same penalty
for neglect or failure to make such delivery which is appointed
in the last preceding section.

In force from February 18, 1864.