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6. The civil jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace extends
to all cases for the enforcement of contracts and to obtain
redress for wrongs where the debt of damages claimed
shall not exceed one hundred dollars; to all suits on bonds
with penalty exceeding one hundred dollars; where the sum
due and claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars; to
actions of replevin where the value of the thing in contro-
versy does not exceed one hundred dollars 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 attachments against non-
residents or absconding debtors where the sum claimed
does not exceed one hundred dollars, and also to all cases
of attachment in any of the cases mentioned in Section 36
of Article 9 where the sum claimed shall not exceed one
hundred dollars; provided that nothing herein contained
shall be held or construed to affect suits pending on April
5, 1900, nor judgments then existing. Justices of the Peace
of Garrett County shall, after June 1, 1931, have civil
jurisdiction in all cases hereinbefore mentioned in this sec-
tion of this Article instituted after June 1, 1931, and involv-
ing amounts not exceeding two hundred dollars. Justices of
the Peace of Wicomico County shall, after the date of the
passage hereof, have civil jurisdiction in all cases herein-
before mentioned in this section of this Article instituted
after the date of the passage hereof and involving amounts
not exceeding three hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed upon by a yea and nay vote, sup-
ported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1936.

CHAPTER 24.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
395 of Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Wicomico County, " sub-
title "State's Attorney, " providing additional compensa-