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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 59.

AN ACT to repeal chapter two hundred and
sixty-three of the acts of Assembly passed
at the January session of eighteen hundred
and eighty, entitled an act to repeal section
forty-niue of chapter one hundred and eight
of the acts of Assembly passed at the Janu-
ary session of eighteen hundred and seven-
ty-eight, entitled an act to add an additional
section to the Code of Public Local Laws,
to be entitled Garrett county, and to re-
enact the same with amendments, limiting
the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace,
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Repealed and
re-enacted.

sembly of Maryland, That chapter two hun-
dred and sixty-three of the acts of Assembly
passed at the January session of eighteen hun-
dred and eighty, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted to read as follows :

Suits before
Justices of the
Peace.

SEC. 49. It shall not be lawful for any resi-
dent or residents of Garrett county to be sued
before any Justice of the Peace of said county
out of the election district in which he, she or
they reside; provided, however, that upon any
cause of action within the jurisdiction of a
Justice of the Peace arising in said county,
any resident or residents may be sued before
a Justice of the Peace in the election district
wherein the contract was made, or such cause
of action did originate; and provided further,
that when the cause of action arises in any
other county of this State or in the city of
Baltimore, or where said contract was made

Where brought.

or said cause of action arose outside of this
State, or when there shall be no Justice of the
Peace duly commissioned and qualified accord-
ing to law, in the election district in which
said defendant or defendants reside, then it
shall be lawful to bring said suit in election