INDEX.

1841

Chap.

Sec.

county court, etc. where persons offending

may reside, etc. one-half to be paid to in-

former, the other half to the Treasurer of

the Western Shore, for the use of the State,

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VALUATION AND ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY

IN THIS STATE— Treasurers of Western and Eastern

Shores to keep an accurate account of the

monies paid into the Treasury by the city

of Baltimore, Howard District and the

several counties, under this bill; and the

said city, etc. to commute the sums so

paid into so much of the State's stock in

the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,

as may equal the amounts paid by them, etc.

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W.

WASHINGTON AND CAROLINE COUNTIES—

After the 1st day of May, 1841, the act to

establish magistrates' courts in, passed

1835, ch. 201, repealed,

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1

The justices of the peace in, to have

concurrent jurisdiction with the county

courts in all cases where single justices

have jurisdiction, where the amount shall

be more than, $50, and not more than $100;

said jurisdiction, in cases of attachment

and replevin, where property to amount of

not more than $100, shall be claimed,

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2

Any justice of the pence of, may issue

attachment, by way of execution, on judg-

ments rendered by a justice of the peace, etc.

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3

Judgment rendered under this act, not

to be a lien upon any lands, etc. unless

said judgments shall be recorded by clerks

of said counties, as those recorded by dis-

trict courts, when said judgments shall he

a lien, and bear date from the time of being

so recorded,

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4

In all cases determined before any jus-

tice of the peace, where the debt deter-

mined to be due exceed the sum of $50,

said justices authorised to charge double

the fees now allowed to single justices, in

like cases, under $50; and in all cases of

attachment and replevin, to have the same