ART. 22. ] WICOMICO COUNTY. 387

tion district number seven (Trappe, ) two justices of the
peace and two constables. In election district number
eight (Nutters', ) two justices of the peace and two con-
stables. In election district number nine (Salisbury, )
there shall be three justices of the peace and two con-
stables. In election district number1 ten (Sharptown, )
there. shall be two justices of the peace and one con-
stable.

In force and approved February 6, 1808.

1868, c. 257 enacts the following: 16. In addition to the two justices of the peace, in district number two, (Quantico, ) in Wicomico county, now provided for by law, there shall be an additional justice of the peace appointed for said district, in said county, and the governor is hereby authorized to ap- point and commission an additional justice of the peace for said district. In force and approved March 30, 1868.

1868, c. 257. Additional jus- tice in Quantico district.

By the act of 1868, c. 18 all the official acts of the several justices of the peace, con-
stables and road supervisors residing and acting within the limits of Wicomico
county, who received their appointments as such for the counties of Somerset and
Worcester, are ratified and confirmed and made as good and binding in law as if
they had been duly appointed and qualified as officers for Wicomico county until
their successors shall have been appointed and qualified; provided the same be not
otherwise defective for reasons other than want of jurisdiction

That justices of the peace, resident within the limits of Somerset or Worcester
county, who may have rendered judgment against any person resident within the
limits of Wicomico county, from whose judgment an appeal has been prayed, within
sixty days from the rendition thereof, shall transmit the papers in such case together
with a copy of the judgment rendered therein to the clerk of the circuit court for
Wicomico county for review in said court.

That all judgments rendered by the justices of the peace of Wicomico county for
any sum exceeding fifty dollars (provided a certified copy thereof be recorded in the
office of the clerk of the circuit court for said county, ) shall be a lien upon the real
estate of the defendant.

That all sales made by the sheriffs and constables of Somerset and Worcester coun-
ties respectively, or which may be made by them in pursuance of writs issued to
them before the adoption of the present constitution, and levied by them upon pro-
perty within the limits of Wicomico county, be and the same are hereby ratified and
confirmed, provided the same shall have been levied and made in strict conformity
to law and liable to no exceptions other than want of jurisdiction.