ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 773

for later appearance as herein provided for accused's first
appearance before said Justice, and he may exact, if in his
judgment he deem necessary, the same security or collateral
of the witnesses for the State as required for their first appear-
ance before said Police Justice. And provided further that
should said case have originated before any other Justice of
the Peace for violation of any town ordinance of any incor-
porated town in said County, the said Police Justice shall
docket a case in the name of such incorporated town against
said accused, and the same procedure shall be followed as
herein provided for in other cases transmitted to said Police
Justice for trial.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, the Police Justice
in this Act provided for shall have civil jurisdiction in all cases
for the enforcement of contracts, and to obtain redress for
wrongs where debt or damages shall not exceed $250; to all
suits on bonds with penalty exceeding $250 where the sum due
and claimed does not exceed $250; to actions of replevin where
the value of the thing in controversy does not exceed $250, and
which value shall be ascertained by appraisers summoned and
sworn by the sheriff or other 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
$250; and to all cases of attachment in any of the cases men-
tioned in Section 36 of Article 9 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland where the sum claimed shall not exceed $250; pro-
vided, that nothing herein contained shall be held or construed
to affect suits pending on the first day of June, 1927, nor
judgments then existing; and likewise jurisdiction in all other
cases as provided either by the Code of Public General or Pub-
lic Local Laws, or town ordinances, where the sum due and
claimed shall not exceed $250. And in all civil cases origi-
nating before some Justice of the Peace other than the Police
Justice the parties litigant, either plaintiff or defendant shall
have the right of removal to said Police Justice by making
affidavit in the usual form and before hearing begun, that a
fair and impartial trial of said case can not be had before the
Justice of the Peace where said civil action was instituted.
And provided further that where by town ordinance of any
incorporated town in Prince George's County, jurisdiction is
conferred upon a Justice of the Peace to hear and determine
any violation of said ordinance or ordinances, or where said
Justice of the Peace other than the Police Justice shall have