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may, at any time within ten days from the rendition thereof
appeal from such judgment to the circuit court for Calvert county
or St. Mary's county; but no execution or sale shall be stayed
unlesss the party appealing shall give bond to the State of Mary-
land in double the amount of the fine imposed or value of the
property condemned, with surety to be approved by said justice,
and with condition to prosecute such appeal with effect, and to
pay the parties entitled to the same the value of the property
condemned or amount of fine imposed, and all costs in case such
judgment shall be affirmed; and in all cases of appeal each party
shall be entitled to trial by jury.

OUT-PENSIONS.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 5, sec. 51.

106. The county commissioners may keep as many out-pen-
sioners and allow them such pensions as they may think proper,
not exceeding twenty dollars in any one case, except in cases of
extreme poverty and distress and inability to labor, when they
may in their discretion allow a pension of forty dollars.

RECORDS.

1886, ch. 116.

107. All deeds, wills, mortgages, papers or other'instruments
of writing which have been re-recorded, whether from the original
or certified copies thereof, either in the office of the clerk of the
circuit court for Calvert county or in the office of the register of
wills of said county, since the third day of March, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-two, or which may hereafter be re-recorded in
said offices, the original records of which were destroyed by fire,
shall have the same force and effect in law and equity that the
originals had; provided, that all such deeds, mortgages, wills,
papers and other instruments of writing which may be re-recorded,
recording whereof was made necessary by law, shall be re-recorded
in conformity and compliance with the laws of this State relating
to conveyancing and recording, and shall be subject to the con-
ditions and regulations thereof, the same as new deeds, mortgages,
wills and other instruments of writing; provided, that the exis-
tence and recording of any deed, mortgage, will or other