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lor any motor vehicle, unless the application therefor has been
stamped or perforated by the Treasurer of Montgomery County
certifying that taxes assessed and due on motor vehicles owned
by the person, firm or corporation applying for such license
plate or marker have been paid; Provided, that motor vehicles
owned by residents of Montgomery County are assessed sep-
arately and apart from the assessment on any other kind or
class of assessable property, and that said taxes on motor
vehicles so separately assessed and levied, are permitted to
be paid separately and apart from the payment of all other
taxes; and Provided further, that this Section shall apply
only in case of taxes becoming due and owing on motor
vehicles in Montgomery County under the Montgomery County
levy, fiscal or tax year which began July 1, 1940, and for each
such year thereafter.

SEC. 2. And Toe it further enacted, That this Act shall be
declared an emergency law and necessary for the immediate
public health and safety, and being passed by a yea and nay
vote, supported 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 23, 1941.

CHAPTER 380.
(House Bill 670)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 7
of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Civil Juris-
diction", increasing the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace
in Montgomery County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, 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title "Civil Jurisdiction", be and it is hereby repealed and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 extends
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