1372 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 727

CHAPTER 726.

AN ACT to repeal Section 31 of Article LII of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title, "Justices of the Peace," sub-
title, "Process and Practice," and relating to the death
or disqualification of Justices of the Peace, and to re-en-
act the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 31 of Article 52 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title, "Justices of the Peace," sub-title,
"Process and Practice," relating to the death or disqualifica-
tion of justices of the peace, be and the same is hereby repealed
and in lieu thereof re-enacted, with amendments, so as to
read as follows:

31. If any justice of the peace shall die or shall cease to
act as such from any cause, any justice of the peace in the
same county shall have the same power to receive returns of
writs or process, to issue any writ or process and to do all
other acts in relation thereto as such justice would have had
if he were living and acting as a justice of the peace, to the
end that no pending suit or action shall abate by reason of
the death or disqualification of any justice of the peace, but
that any other justice of the same county may, upon the filing
with him by either party of a copy of the docket entries
of such suit or action taken from the docket of such deceased
or otherwise disqualified justice, certified by the Clerk of the
Circuit Court, and after notice of not less than ten days to
all the other parties to the suit or action, proceed with such
suit or action to final determination the same as though such
suit or action had been originally brought before him.
Approved April 16, 1920..

CHAPTER 727.

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State debt in the
aggregate amount of one million five hundred thousand
($1,500,000) dollars, the proceeds thereof to be used
for certain necessary construction, equipment and com-
pletion of State property and for the State's contribu-
tion to the soldiers, sailors and marines' memorial; and
providing generally for the issue and sale of certificates
of indebtedness evidencing such loan.