ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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18 hereby authorized and required to make out in a fair and legible

handwriting, general indexes in the names of both plaintiffs and

defendants of all judgments recovered in said court from the year

eighteen hundred and seventy-seven to eighteen hundred and

eighty-nine, both inclusive, and of all equity cases docketed in

said court from the year eighteen hundred and fifty to eighteen ;

Make in-

hundred and eighty-nine, both inclusive, and shall be allowed

dexes.

therefor the same compensation as is now allowed by law for

making general indexes to land records of the couuty, in addition

to all costs for index record books to be furnished by said clerk,

and to be paid for by the county commissioners for Talbot county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the county commissioners of

Talbot county be and they are hereby directed to pay to the clerk

To pay.

of the circuit court for Talbot county, whatever sum or sums of

money may be found to be due him under the preceding section.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after the passage of

this act it shall be the duty of said clerk to enter in said indexes,

in the name of both plaintiffs and defendants, all judgments and

Duty of

equity cases thereafter, and also to enter the same satisfied and

clerk

ended, for which service he shall be allowed the sum of fifty cents

to be paid for by the parties to the suit as other costs are now

paid.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 428.

AN ACT to repeal section fifty-seven, of the local laws of Wicomico

county, being article twenty-three, of the Code of Public Local

Laws, respecting the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in mis-

demeanors and felonies, and to amend and re-enact the same as

amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That section fifty-seven, of article twenty-three, of the Code of

Public Local Laws, being the local laws for Wicomico county,

Repeal.

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read

as follows :

SEC. 57. The several justices of the peace of Wicomico county

shall have, in addition to the jurisdiction which they now possess,

and which may be conferred upon them by or under the laws of

this State, jurisdiction concurrent with that exercised by the cir-

cuit court for said county in all cases of assault, without any