LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 411.
AN ACT to repeal Chapter 157 of the Acts of 1894, which
repealed Section 181 of Article 1 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title "Justices of
the Peace and Constables," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

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land, That chapter 157 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of 1894, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, so as to make section 181 of Article 1 of the Code
of Public Local Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title " Jus-
tices of the Peace and Constables," so as to read as follows :

181. Nothing in the last preceding section shall operate so as
to prevent residents of election districts numbers four, five, six,
fourteen, twenty-two and twenty-three, from being sued in

Repeal.

either of said districts, or residents of election districts num-
bers ten and fifteen from being sued in either of said districts
ten and fifteen, or residents of election districts numbers eleven,
twelve, nineteen, twenty-four and twenty-six, being sued in
either of said districts numbers eleven, twelve, nineteen, twenty-
four and twenty-six ; provided, however, that upon a cause of
action brought before any one of the justices of the peace of
election districts numbers four, five, six, fourteen, twenty-two
or twenty-three, if the parties to any cause in any suit or action
or issue pending, shall make a suggestion in writing, supported
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 where 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 four, tive, six, four-
teen, twenty-two or twenty-three ; and provided, further, that
if any district in Allegany county, except districts four, five,
six, fourteen, twenty-two or twenty-three, shall not at any time
have a justice of the peace residing therein, by reason of his
resignation, 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 one of the justices of the peace of the

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Residents
may be sued