DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1828

side of said court, may bear tests on the first day of the
last city term, and be made returnable on the first day of
the city term next thereafter, and any process may be test-
ed and made returnable during the same term that the court
may direct.

CHAP. 161.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That there shall be paid to
the clerk of Baltimore county court, over and above all fees
at present demandable by law, the sum of one dollar and
fifty cents by the plaintiff in every city suit, at the time of
issuing the writ therein, and the sum of two dollars by each
and every complainant, on filing his bill on the equity side
of said court, and the sum of one dollar by each and every
appellant in appeals from the judgments of magistrates, on
filing his petition, which sums shall be respectively taxed
as parts of the costs of such plaintiff, complainant or appel-
lant, as the case may be, and the bond of said clerk shall be
answerable therefor; and it shall be the duty of said clerk
to account for, and pay over quarterly, all money by him so
received, to the treasurer of the western shore, retaining on-
ly a commission at the rate of five per cent, for his trouble
in receiving and paying the said money according to this

Payment of addi-

tional fees, &c

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the judges of Baltimore
county court, or any one or more of them, shall have pow-
er, at or during the next March term of said court, to con-
tinue over to the May term of said court, as established by
this act, all proceedings in every case pending on the city
dockets of said court, and each party in every case shall be
entitled to the same rights, benefits, privileges, and relief,
and to make all such motions and entries, and be liable to
all such judgments, amercements and costs, on the first or
other day of the said May term, as such party by the exist-
ing laws, and the rules of the said court would be, on the
first or other day respectively, of the said next March term
of said court; and all writs and other process which shall
be issued in city causes, from the fourth Monday in March
until the thirtieth day of April next, both inclusive, shall
be made returnable on the first day of May next.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That in all cases where any
person is or shall become special bail for any defendant in
any city cause, such special bail, or his legal representa-
tives, shall be exonerated from all responsibility in such
action, by producing the body of such defendant in the
said court, and surrendering him at any time before a fiat
shall be finally entered on a scire facias against such bail,
or representative, or during the term at which such fiat
shall be entered, and paying the costs of such scirc facias;
and no execution shall issue on any judgment of condemna-
tion in any case of attachment issued on the return of one
or more writs non est, to any city terms of the said court,

Special bail &c