392 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. [ART. 52

hundred dollars; to all suits on bonds, with penalty exceeding
two hundred dollars, where the sum due and claimed does not
exceed to hundred dollars; to actions of replevin, where the
value of the thing in controversy does not exceed two hundred
dollars, and which value shall be ascertained by appraisers sum-
moned and sworn by the sheriff, or the officer to whom the writ
of replevin is directed; and to all cases of attachment against
non-resident or absconding debtors, where the sum claimed does
not exceed two hundred dollars; and also to all cases of attach-
ment in any of the cases mentioned in section 35 of article 9
where the sum claimed shall not exceed two hundred dollars.
Weed v. Lewis, 80 Md. 128.

1892, ch. 619.

9. The jurisdiction of justices of the peace extends to cases
where administrators are parties-plaintiffs or defendants except
that no administrator shall be sued before a justice within twelve
months from the date of his letters; provided, that in the city
of Baltimore the said suits may be brought within three months
from the date of such letters.

Criminal Jurisdiction.

1890, ch. 618. 1892, ch. 485. 1894, ch. 338. 1896, ch. 128.
HA. The several justices of the peace of the State of Mary-
land (except in the city of Baltimore, and in Talbot, Harford,
Montgomery and Frederick counties), shall have, in addition to
the jurisdiction which they now possess, and which may be con-
ferred on them by or under the laws of this State, jurisdiction
concurrent with that exercised by the circuit courts for the sev-
eral counties of this State, in all cases of assault without any
felonious intent; and in all cases of assault and battery, and in
all cases of petty larceny when the value of the property stolen
does not exceed the sum of five dollars, and in misdemeanors not
punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, which may be
committed within their respective jurisdiction; and shall have
jurisdiction in all prosecutions or proceedings for recovery of
any penalty for doing or omitting to do any act, the doing of
which or the omission to do which is made punishable under the
law of this State, within their said jurisdiction by any pecuniary
fine or penalty, or by imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland