1842

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 285.

next, the act entitled an act to establish Magistrate's courts
in the several counties of this stale, and to prescribe their
jurisdiction, passed at December session eighteen hundred
and thirty-five, chapter two hundred and one, and the seve-
ral supplements thereto, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed, as far as relates to Talbot county.

Concurrent
jurisdiction
with county
courts.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That justices of the peace in
Talbot county, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the
county courts, in all cases where single justices now have
jurisdiction, when the amount in controversy shall exceed
the sum of fifty dollars, but not amount to more than the
sum of one hundred dollars.

Judgments
rendered by a
justice of the
peace to be a
lien, he.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all judgments rendered
by a justice of the peace, shall be a lien on all lands and
real estate of defendants lying within the county wherein
the same judgment was rendered, to all intents and purpo-
ses, as much as if said judgment had been rendered in the
county court from the time when a short copy of any such
judgment shall have been filed and recorded in the office of
the clerk of the same county wherein the same judgment
is rendered and not before; from which record the said
clerk shall keep a seperate record book with an index sta-
ting doubly the names of the plaintiff and defendant, and the
said clerk shall receive for filing, recording and indexing
every such copy of a judgment, the sum of twenty-five
cents and no more, and it shall be lawful for the said clerk
on the application of the plaintiff to issue execution thereon
directed to the sheriff, and returnable before the county
court in the same manner as if the said judgments had been
obtained in the said county court, and shall receive his
usual fees for such service.

Right of ap-
peal allowed
in all cases.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That the right of appeal shall
be allowed in all cases under this law, from the deci-
sion of any justice of the peace, subject to all the rules and
requirements of law established to regulate appeal on sums
under fifty dollars.

Magistrate's
courts to close
all processes
by 1st of Nov.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That it is hereby made the duty
of the respective magistrate's courts of Talbot county
to hear, determine and close all process or processes, cause
or causes before them, on or before the first day of No-
vember next; but in case of inability on their part so to do,
the chief justice of each court shall return the docket of his
court to the clerk of Talbot county court within thirty days
after this act goes into operation; and the judges of Tal-
bot county court shall hear and determine all cases not pla-
ced under the control of single justices of the peace by this
act, and the said chief justices of the respective magistrate's
courts shall in like manner and within the same time, hand