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LAWS OF MARYLAJND.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to

Repeal.

Article 10 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Attor-
neys at Law and Attorneys in Fact," to follow section 9, and
to be designated as " Section 9 A," and to read as follows :
9 A. All persons who are now or shall hereafter be admitted
to practice law in any court of this State, or his duly authorized

Entitled to
inspectant
examine
records, etc.

representative, shall be entitled to inspect and examine the
records and indexes in the clerk's offices of the circuit courts
in this State and the courts constituting the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore city, and in the offices of the Register of Wills in
this State, and of the Commissioner of the Land Office, and to
make memoranda or notes therefrom for any lawful purpose
without payment of fees therefor.
Approved April 2, 1898.

CHAPTER 167.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 6
of Article 54 of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Baltimore City," sub-title "Justice of the Peace."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 6 of Article 52 of the Code of Public

Repeal.

General Laws, title "Baltimore City," sub title "Justice of the
Peace," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, as follows :
6. The civil jurisdiction of justices of the peace extends to
all cases for the enforcement of contracts, and to obtain redress

Civil Jurisdic-
tion of jus-
tices of the
peace.

for wrongs where the debt or damages claimed shall not exceed
two hundred dollars ; to all suits on bonds, with penalty
exceeding two hundred dollars, where the sum due and claimed
does not exceed two hundred dollars ; to actions of replevin,
where the value of the thing in controversy does not exceed
two hundred dollars, and which value shall be ascertained by
appraisers summoned and sworn by the sheriff, or the officer to
whom the writ of replevin is directed ; and to all cases of
attachment against non-resident or absconding debtors, where
the sum claimed does not exceed two hundred dollars ; and
also to all cases of attachment in any of the cases mentioned
in section 35 of Article 9 where the sum claimed shall not
exceed two hundred dollars.
Approved April 2, 1898.