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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 400.

AN ACT to repeal sections sixty six and • sixty-

seven of article fifty-one of the Code of Public

General Laws, entitled " Justices of the Peace,"

which were enacted and added to said article by

the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, chap-

ter four hundred and forty-three, and to re-enact

the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section sixty-six and sixty-seven,

which by chapter four hundred and forty-three of

Substitute

eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, were enacted as

therefor.

additional sections to article fifty-one of the Code

of Public General Laws, entitled " Justices of the

Peace," be and the same are hereby repealed and

the following be enacted as a substitute therefor.

SEC. 66. Hereafter all judgments rendered by jus-

tices of the peace within the city of Baltimore, or

in any of the counties of this State, may be made

Made liens on

liens on the real estate or leasehold interest and

real estate.

terms for years of the defendant in land in the city

of Baltimore, or in the county where the same have

been so rendered, except leases from year to year,

and leases for terms of not more than five years,

not renewable to the same extent and effect as liens

are now created by judgment upon real estate;

whenever the plaintiff in said judgments shall file

a copy of the judgments under the hand and seal
of the justice by whom the same was rendered with

the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city,

or with the clerk of the circuit court for the county,

as the case may be, where said judgment was rendered

To be record-

to be by such clerk recorded in a book kept for that

ed.

purpose, and for which said clerk shall receive

twenty-five cents in each case, which same shall

be recovered by the plaintiff as a part of the costs

of the judgment, and if for any cause such copy

cannot be had from the justice rendering such judg-
ment, then the clerk, as aforesaid, shall record such