1260 GARRETT COUNTY. [ART. 12.

1886, ch. 86. 1888, ch. 5.

134. In any suit or action, before a justice of the peace, in
Garrett county, where the plaintiff is not a resident of the State
of Maryland, the justice of the peace shall, upon motion of the
defendant, require the plaintiff to give security for the payment
of the costs and charges which may be recovered against him in
such action. When such security is required, in any case, the
plaintiff shall be entitled to a continuance for not less than six
nor more than fourteen days, and if the security required be not
then given, he shall be nonsuited.

Ibid.

135. In all cases of appeal from justices of the peace in said
county to the circuit court, the plaintiff, if he be a non-resident of
the State of Maryland, may be required to give security for costs
in the same manner and to the same extent, in all respects, as if
the cause had originated in the circuit court for said county.

1884, ch. 510.

136. The several justices of the peace of Garrett, Dorchester,
Caroline, Charles, Calvert Harford, Howard, Kent, Montgomery,
Prince George's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, Washington,
Wicomico, Anne Arundel and Allegany counties, shall have, in ad-
dition to the jurisdiction which they now possess, and which may
be conferred upon them by or under the laws of this State, juris-
diction 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 tive dollars, and in all misdemeanors not punishable by
confinement in the penitentiary, which may be committed within
their respective jurisdictions; and shall have jurisdiction in all
prosecutions or proceedings for the recovery of any penalty for
doing or omitting to do any act, the doing of which, or the omis-
sion to do which, is made punishable under the laws of this State,
within their said jurisdiction by any pecuniary fine or penalty or
by imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland House of Correction;
all of which acts or omissions are hereby declared to be crimi-
nal offences; and the said justices shall have power to issue all