LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1842

empowered, to issue a summons or citation, for any delin-
quent supervisor of the public roads, any collector of state
or county taxes, or any other persons having unsettled ac-
counts with said commissioners court, to be returnable in
not less than eight, and not more than thirty days, to be di-
rected to the sheriff of said county, who shall receive the
same fees, and be liable to the same penalties, as are now
received, or incurred by said officer in the service of sum-
mons or citation, issued by the orphans court.

CHAP. 88.

CHAPTER 88.

A further supplement to an act passed at December session
eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter two hundred
and one, so far as the same relates to Harford County.

, Passed Feb.
14, 1843'.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That so much of the twenty-fourth section of
the act to which this is a further supplement as directs that
if the monies received by the chief justice of the district
court be not sufficient to pay the per diem allowed to the
district justices, the levy court or county commissioners of
the county, shall annually pay to the justices such sums as
shall be requisite to make up the full amount of such al-
lowances, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as re-
lates to Harford county.

Repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That an additional court shall
be instituted and organized in the Town of Havre-de-Grace,
with all the powers and jurisdiction within the incorporated
limits of said town as other district court may have and ex-
ercise within the limits of their respective districts, under
the said act of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter
two hundred and one, and the several supplements thereto;
and the governor is hereby required to appoint three justi-
ces for said court residing1 in the, said town, who shall im-
mediately upon the receipt of their several commissions,
proceed to organize said court, and shall receive the same
compensation and be governed by the same rules and regu-
lations in all respects as the other courts established in Har-
ford county under the act to which this is a further supple-
ment.

Additional
court institu-
ted, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That to subserve the public
convenience and to give the citizen his election of tribunal
in cases of contest, and not to force him against his consent
into the district courts, that hereafter in all cases of attach-
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Repealed,