ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1185

Jurisdiction, " to increase the civil jurisdiction of the Jus-
tices of the Peace for Wicomico County from one hundred
dollars to two hundred dollars.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 6 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1929 Supplement), title "Justices of the Peace, "
sub-title "Civil Jurisdiction, " be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

6. The civil jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace extends
to all cases for the enforcement of contracts and to obtain re-
dress for wrongs where the debt or 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 controversy does not exceed one
hundred dollars and which value shall be ascertained by ap-
praisers 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 con-
tained shall be held or construed to affect suits pending on
April 5, 1900, nor judgments then existing. Justices of the
Peace of Garrett and Wicomico Counties shall, after June 1,
1931, have civil jurisdiction in all cases hereinbefore men-
tioned in this section of this Article instituted after June 1,
1931, and involving amounts not exceeding two* hundred dol-
lars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1931.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 473.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
337A of Article 23 of Bagby's Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland (1929 Supplement), title "Corporations, " sub-
title "Condemnation of Property by Corporations, " author-
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