1126 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 544

subpoenas for witnesses, and try and determine said case,
if he has jurisdiction under the provisions of this Act,
within ten days after the receipt of the papers inclusive
of the day on which said papers are received, and shall
pronounce judgment and sentence as required by law.
Provided, however, that upon good cause shown by either
the party accused or the State's Attorney on behalf of
the State the said Police Justice they continue said case
for such time as his judgment may be reasonable and
just, provided that should said case be continued at the
instance of either party the said Police Justice shall take
the same bail 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 re-
quired for their first appearance before said Police Justice.
And provided, further that should said case have origi-
nated before any other Justice of the Peace for violation
of any town ordinance of any incorporated 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.

174F. 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; 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 sum-
moned and sworn by the sheriff or other officer to whom
the writ of replevin is directed; and to all cases of attach-
ment 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, mentioned in Section
36 of Article9 of the Annotated Code of Maryland where
the sum claimed shall not exceed $250; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be held or construed to af-
fect suits pending on the first day of June, 1935, nor judg-
ments then existing; and likewise jurisdiction in all other
cases as provided either by the Code of Public General
or Public Local Laws, or town ordinances, where the sum
due and claimed shall not exceed $250. And in all civil
cases originating before some Justice of the Peace other
than the Police Justice the parties Litigant, either plain-