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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 733

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 411 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of 1898 be and the same is hereby repealed

Repeal and
re-enact.

and re-enacted, so as to make Section 181 of Article 1 of
the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Allegany County,"
sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables," so as to
read as follows :

181. Nothing in the last preceding section shall operate

Nothing to
operate to
prevent
residents
from being
sued.

so as to prevent residents of election districts Nos. 4, 5, 6,
14, 22 and 23 from being sued in either of said districts, or
residents of election districts Nos. 10 and 15 from being
sued in either of said districts 10 and 15, or residents of
election districts Nos. 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 24, 26, 27, 28
being sued in either of said districts Nos. 11, 12, 13,
17, 18, 29, 24, 26, 28; provided, however, that upon a cause
of action brought before any one of the justices of
the peace of election districts Nos. 4, 5, 6, 14, 22 or
23, if the parties to any cause in any suit or action or
issue pending shall make a suggestion in writing, sup-
ported by the affidavit of such party or his counsel or
other proper evidence, that the party cannot have a fair
and impartial trial before said justice whore such suit or
action or issue is pending, then the said justice of the peace,
before whom such suit or action or issue is pending, shall
forthwith order and direct the proceedings in any such suit
or action or issue to be transmitted to some other justice of
the peace appointed and qualified for any of the above-
named election districts 4, 5, 6, 14, 22 or 23; and provided,
further, that if in any district in Allegany county, except
districts 4, 5, 6, 14, 22 or 23, shall not have at any time a
justice of the peace residing therein, by reason of his resig-
nation, death, removal, failure to qualify, absence, or from
any other cause, any suit might have been brought against
any person in such district under this Act may be brought
in any other district adjoining the one in which there is no
justice of the peace; and that upon a cause of action (civil
or criminal) brought before any of the justices of the peace
of the election districts Nos. 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 24, 26,
27, 28, if either party to any cause in any suit or action or
issues pending, shall make a suggestion in writing, supported
by the affidavit of such party or his counsel, or proper evi-
dence that the party cannot get a fair and impartial trial