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the Peace and Constables, " said Additional Section to come in
immediately after Section 187 of said Article 18, and to be
known as Section 187A, and to read as follows:

SEC. 187A. Whenever a Justice of the Peace of said County
shall issue a summons or process of any kind, civil or criminal,
for a defendant residing in said County, who shall file with the
said Justice of the Peace issuing said summons or process,
civil or criminal, at any time before the trial or hearing of the
said case actually begins, an oath, in writing, administered to
said defendant by some other Justice of the Peace or Notary
Public of the said County, ''That the defendant does not be-
lieve that the Justice of the Peace issuing said summons or
process can give the defendant a fair and impartial trial or
hearing of the case, and asking that the papers in the said Case
be transmitted to some other Justice of the Peace in the elec-
tion district of the County where the defendant resides for
trial"; it shall be the duty of the Justice of the Peace before
whom said written oath is filed to immediately transmit the
papers in said case to some other Justice of the Peace in the
election district of said County where the defendant resides,
who shall try the same.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from and after the first day of June, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918

CHAPTER 174.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 266
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1908,
entitled "An Act to add a new Section to the Public Local
Laws of Maryland, Article 18, title 'Queen Anne's County, '
sub-title 'Sudlersville, ' to immediately follow section 248,
and to be known as Section 248A. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 248A of the Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, Article 18, title "Queen Anne's County, " sub-title "Sud-
lersville, " as enacted by Chapter 266 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1908, be and the same is hereby
repealed, and that said section 248A be re-enacted to read as
follows: