WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

CHAPTER 144.

CHAP. 144.

A supplement to an act, entitled, an act to abolish Ma-
gistrates' Courts, in Calvert County, passed at De-
cember session, Eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Passed Mar. 9,
1839.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all cases where suits have been in-
stituted in said courts, for the recovery of a sum not
exceeding fifty dollars, if no judgment has been render-
ed thereon, it shall be the duty of the respective chief
judges of said courts to deliver to some justice of the
peace, of the district or county, all the papers and
proceedings relative thereto; and in case any writ of
capias ad respondendum, scire facias, capias ad satis-
faciendum, or fieri facias, issued by either of the said
courts, for the recovery of a sum not exceeding fifty
dollars, shall be in the hands of the sheriff or any con-
stable of said county, and not returned, it shall be the
duty of the said sheriff or constable, as the case may be,
to return the same before some justice of the peace, of
the district or county, who shall take such proceed-
ings thereon as if the same had been originally issued
by a single justice.

Cases pending pro-

vided for.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the respective chief judges of said courts, and they
are hereby required forthwith to return to the clerk of
said county, the dockets kept by the said courts, and

Dockets to be re-

turned.

it shall be the duty of the said clerk, upon the applica-
tion of the plaintiff, or plaintiffs, his, her, or their
agent or attorney, to make out a true copy of any judg-
ment, where the sum for which the same is rendered
does not exceed fifty dollars, upon which copy any

Clerks shall give

copies.

justice of the peace of said county may issue execu-
tion as is now provided by law, in case of the resigna-
tion, removal from office, or death of a justice of the
peace, and it shall further be the duty of the said clerk,
upon the application of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, his,
her, or their agent or attorney, to issue execution
upon all judgments where the sum for which the same
is rendered, exceeds fifty dollars, directed to the sheriff
of said county and returnable to the next succeeding
term of Calvert county court, in like manner and by
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Issues thereon au-

thorised—proceed-

ings.