ART. 17.] PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 945

convene the Common Council on the second Monday in May
after each election to receive said returns.

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

Approved March 31, 1908.

CHAPTER 315.

AN ACT to add a new section to article 17 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws, title "Prince George's County," sub-title "Jus-
tices of the Peace and Constables," to be known as section
182A, and to follow immediately after section 182 of said
article.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to
article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Prince
George's County," sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Con-
stables," to be known as section 182A, to follow immediately
after section 182 of said article, and to read as follows:

SEC. 182A. Any defendant or his agent or attorney who shall
make suggestion in writing, upon oath, that he does not believe
such defendant can have a fair and impartial trial in any case
pending before any justice of the peace of Prince George's
county in which such defendant is a party, shall have the right
at any time before trial, upon making said written suggestion
and oath before the said justice before whom such case was in-
stituted, to have such pending case removed before a justice-of
the peace in an election district adjoining the district in which
the said case was instituted. The justice before whom such
case was instituted shall, upon payment of his costs accrued to
the date of removal, designate a justice of the peace in an ad-
joining election district, as aforesaid, and forthwith transfer
all of the papers and a record of his proceedings in the case to
said justice to whom such case shall be removed, and the jus-
tice to whom such case shall be removed shall forthwith set the
case for trial at a time not less than six nor more than fourteen
days from the date of the receipt of the papers; shall issue such
summonses as may be necessary; and shall at once notify the
plaintiff and defendant, or their respective attorneys, of the
time so set for trial, and shall take such further action in the
case as if the same had been originally instituted before him;
provided, that in any case instituted before a justice of the
peace in Laurel district of the said county, the removal herein-