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erty, to be collected according to the law, to meet the inter-
est on the amount of said certificates outstanding, and also
to meet and redeem so much of the principal in each of said
year as may be represented by certificates redeemable in
each year, respectively, as herein specified in Section 2 of
this act.

Approved May 6, 1941.

CHAPTER 855.
(Senate Bill 90)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 7 of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title
"Civil Jurisdiction", relating to the jurisdiction of Jus-
tices of the Peace of Worcester, Dorchester, Charles,
Frederick, Harford, Talbot, Washington, St. Mary's,
Kent, Caroline and Anne Arundel Counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 7 of Article 52 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Justices of the
Peace", sub-title "Civil Jurisdiction", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

7. The civil jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace ex-
tends to all cases for the enforcement of contracts and to
obtain redress 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 dol-
lars; 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 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