EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 8, 1906.

CHAPTER 86.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
56 A of Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Saint Mary's County," sub-title "Justice of the Peace,"
as the same was enacted by the Act of 1902, Chapter 568,
so that the same shall read as follows :
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

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land, That Section 56 A of Article 19 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Saint Mary's County," sub-title "Jus-
tice of the Peace," as the same was enacted by the Act of
1902, Chapter 568, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, so as to read as follows :
Section 56 A. Whenever a justice of the peace for said

Repeal and
re-enact.

county shall issue a summons for a defendant residing in a
different election district from the said justice, he shall, upon
the request of the defendant, filed in writing with the said
justice within three days after the said summons has been
served, transmit the papers in the case to some justice of
the district where the defendant resides, who shall proceed
to try the case without further summons for the said defend-
ant, except in cases where there are two or more defendants,
then and in this event the case shall be tried in the district
for which the justice who issued the summons was appointed
and qualified.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 8, 1906.

Papers trans-
mitted to
Justice of the
district
where
defendant
resides