1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 29.

Passed April 5,
1841.

CHAPTER 29.

An act to repeal the act, passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter two hundred
and one, establishing Magistrates Courts in the several
Counties of this State, so fur as the same relates to
Prince George's County.

Repealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the act, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-five, chapter two hundred and one, es-
tablishing magistrates courts in this State, and prescribing
their jurisdiction, be and the same is repealed, so far as re-
lates to Prince George's county.

Dockets. &c. to
be delivered.

, SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the justices of said
courts shall, and they are hereby required to deliver to the
clerk of said county, the dockets of said courts, together
with all papers and documents relating to the business of
said courts; and it shall be the duty of the said clerk, to
transfer to the said trial docket of the county court, all
undecided cases of fifty dollars and upwards, which shall
be tried ami determined in the county court, and witnesses
may be summoned, and execution issued, in the same man-
ner as could have been done upon appeals from judgments
of the said magistrates courts.

Magistrate to
decide case un-
der $50.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for
any party to any undecided suit on said dockets, where the
amount in controversy is less than fifty dollars, to cause
the papers relating to said cause, to be laid before any jus-
tice of the peace of said county for trial, and witnesses
may be summoned, judgment entered and execution issued,
as in other cases before a single magistrate.

Executions.

In force.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in all cases, on said
dockets, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county
court, at the instance of any party or his attorney, entitled
to execution, to sue out execution on said judgments, re-
turnable as other executions from said court.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall not go
into operation until the first day of August next.

Jurisdiction of
justices peace.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the justices of the peace
in said county shall have and exercise all the powers and
jurisdiction that were exercised by them, before the pas-
sage of the act which is hereby repealed.