WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

cute or distrain the property of any person or persons for
taxes, public dues, or officers' fees, in virtue of this act, to
deliver to such person or persons chargeable with the
same, at least thirty days previous to the levying such ex-
ecution or distress, an account, written in words, in full
length, of the taxes, public dues or officers' fees demanded
of him, her or them, with an affidavit annexed thereto, that
he hath not, nor any person for him, received any part
thereof, nor any security or satisfaction for the same, more
than the credits given, to the best of his knowledge.

CHAPTER 64.

CHAP. 64.

An act to abolish, Magistrates' Courts and to extend the
Jurisdiction of single Justices in certain cases, so far as
relates to Washington and Caroline Counties.

Passed April 6,
1841.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the first day of May next,
the act, entitled an act to establish magistrates' courts in
the several counties of this State, and to prescribe their
jurisdiction, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-five, chapter two hundred and one, and the
several supplements thereto, be and the same are hereby
repealed, so far as relates to Washington county.

Act 1835, chap.
201, repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That justices of the peace in
Washington and Caroline counties, shall have concurrent
jurisdiction with the county courts, in all cases where sin-
gle justices have jurisdiction, when the amount in contro-
versy, shall be more than fifty dollars, and not more than
one hundred dollars; and the said justices shall also have
jurisdiction in all cases of attachment and replevin, where
property to the amount of not more than one hundred dol-
lars, shall be claimed under the same rules, regulations and
restrictions, as are now allowed by law to the magistrates1
courts in this State.

Jurisdiction of
single justices.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be law-
ful for any justice of the peace of said counties, to issue at-
tachment by way of execution, on all judgments rendered
by a justice of the peace, in the same manner and under the
same rules, as are now observed by the several county
courts of this State.

Where judg-
ments have been
rendered, single
justice to issue
attachment, &c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing contained in
this act, shall be so construed as to make any judgment

Judgments not
to be liens, &c.