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SEC. 3. And lie it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 251.
(House Bill 290)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
7 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943
Supplement), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title ''Civil
Jurisdiction", as said section was amended by Chapter 833
of the Acts of 1945, conferring concurrent jurisdiction with
the Circuit Court on Trial Magistrates in Baltimore Coun-
ty in cases involving One Hundred to Three Hundred Dol-
lars.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maty-
land, That Section 7 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1943 Supplement), title ''Justices of the Peace",
sub-title ''Civil Jurisdiction", as said section was amended
by Chapter 833 of the Acts of 1945, be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

7. The civil jurisdiction of Trial Magistrates extends to
all cases for the enforcement of contracts and to obtain re-
dress for wrongs where the debt or damages claimed shall
not exceed One Hundred Dollars, to all suits on bonds with
penalty exceeding One Hundred Dollars, where the sum due
and claimed does not exceed One Hundred Dollars; to actions
of replevin where the value of the thing in controversy does
not exceed One Hundred Dollars and which value shall be
ascertained by appraisers summoned and sworn by the sheriff
or other, officer to whom the writ of replevin is directed, and
to all cases of attachments against non-residents or abscond-
ing debtors where the sum claimed does not exceed One
Hundred Dollars and also to all cases of attachment in any
of the cases mentioned in Section 30 of Article 9 where the
sum claimed shall not exceed One Hundred Dollars.

Trial Magistrates of Caroline, Charles, Dorchester, Freder-
ick, Garrett, Kent, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Tal-