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CHAP. 163
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CHAPTER 153.
AN ACT to repeal Section 125 of Article 10 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title " Dorchester County," sub-title
"Justice of the Peace and Constables," as re-enacted by
Chapter 272 of the Acts passed at the January Session,
18S8, and to re-enact the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 125 of Article 10 of the Code of Public
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Repeal and
re-enact.
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Local Laws, title " Dorchester County," sub-title " Justice
of the Peace and Constables," as re-enacted by Chapter 272
of the Acts passed by the January Session, 1888, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows :
Section 125. Every summons in a civil action and every
writ of replevin issued by a justice of the peace of said
county shall be made returnable before the justice who issues
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To whom sum-
mons in a
civil action,
etc., shall be
made return-
able.
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the same or some other justice of the same district, or to
some justice of the district where the defendant or one of
the defendants reside, and at or before the return day of the
summons or writ of replevin, or upon the arrest of the
defendant and the return of the writ or warrants the defend-
ant may notify the justice before whom the return is made
that he elects to have the case removed before some other
justice for trial, and thereupon such justice shall transmit the
papers in the case with a copy of his docket entries therein
to some justice of the district where the defendant or one of
the defendants resides; but if the defendants reside in dif-
ferent districts then the justice shall transmit the papers to
some justice in the district where the defendant resides who
elects to have the case removed; but on the day first fixed
for trial either plaintiff or defendant may appear before the
justice about to try the case and make oath that he does not
believe that he can have a fair and impartial trial before such
justice, and thereupon such justice shall transmit the papers
with a copy of the docket entries to some other justice of the
same district, or if there be no other justice in the same dis-
trict qualified or able to act, then to some justice of an
adjoining district, or upon request of both plaintiff and
defendant, he shall transmit the papers to some justice of
Election District No. 7 of said county for trial; and whenever
a case has been removed either upon the return day or upon
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