HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Justices of the Peace in Washington county,
Maryland, the defendant shall be sued in the

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district in which he resides, unless the con-
tract was made or damage done in another dis-
trict of said county, when suit may be brought
in said district, or unless the parties agreed to
perform the contract in another district, in
which case suit may be brought in said dis-
trict.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in case any
defendant be sued in any other district than
his own, on his written or personal application
to the Justice of the Peace before whom the
suit was brought, such Justice, upon being
satisfied that the place of residence of the de-
fendant is in a different district, shall trans-
mit all the papers in the case to a Justice of
the Peace in the district in which the defend-
ant lives, and notify the plaintiff to what Jus-
tice of the Peace and Constable the papers

Suits before
Justices whore
brought.

have been transmitted; provided, that there
is a Justice of the Peace in said district acting
and competent to try the case; and, further
provided, that if the defendant, upon being
sued, does not before trial notify the Justice
of his residence in another district, he shall
be considered as having waived his right to
have the papers transmitted to his own dis-
trict; and provided, further, that districts num-
ber three, twenty-one and twenty-two, com-
prising Hagerstown and vicinity, shall be re-
garded as one district for the purpose of this
act.

Approved April 1, 1886.

Proceedings.