1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 222.

CHAPTER 222.

Passed Mar. 26,
1839.

An act to repeal an act to establish Magistrates' Courts
in the several counties of this State, and to prescribe
their jurisdiction, passed at December session, eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-five, chapter two hundred and
one, together with all the supplements thereto, so far
as the same relate to Cecil County.

Repealing clause.

SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That an 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, together with all the supplements
thereto, be and the same are hereby repealed, so far
as the same relates to Cecil county.

Pending cases pro-

vided for.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases where
suits have been instituted in said courts for the reco-

Not exceeding $50.

very of a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, if no judg-
ment has been rendered thereon, it shall be the duty
of their 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, scieri facias,
capias ad satisfaciendum, or fieri facias, issued by
either of the said courts, for the recovery of a sum not

If in hands of Sher-

iff.

exceeding fifty dollars, shall be in the hands of the
sheriff, or any constable of said county, and not; re-
turned, it shall be the duty of the 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 proceedings thereon, as if the same had been
originally issued by a single justice.

Chief Judge shall
return Docket to

County clerk.

Sec. 3. 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

His duty on appli-

cation, to issue, &c.

said county, the dockets kept by the said courts, and it
shall be the duty of the said clerk, upon the application
of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, his, her or their agent, or
attorney, to make out a true copy of any judgement,
where the sum for which the same is rendered, does
not exceed fifty dollars, upon which copy, any justice
of the peace of said county, may issue execution as is