WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

proceeds of said property, to the support and education of
said minors.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the acts of Wil-
liam G. Carter, late the guardian of said minors, be and
they are hereby declared as valid and effectual in law as
if he had filed in due time his guardian bond with said
Orphans' court.

CHAPTER 108.

CHAP. 109.
Guardian's acts

made valid.

An act for regulating the action of Justices of the Peace
in certain cases in Montgomery County.

Passed Mar. 18,
1840.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the
duty of justices of the peace of Montgomery county, be-
fore whom a warrant may be laid against a defendant re-
siding in a different election district from that of the said
justice of the peace, to transmit said papers to some jus-
lice of the peace in the district where said defendant re-
sides, who shall try the same; provided, the defendant re-
quests the removal of the same.

CHAPTER 109.

Papers, &c. to
be transmitted

to a justice in

district where

defendant re-
sides.

A further additional supplement to an act passed December
session eighteen hundred and thirty-five, establishing Ma-
gistrates Courts in the several counties of this State, and
prescribing their jurisdiction, so far as relates to St. Ma-
ry's County.

Passed Mar. 19,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That so much of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, as relates to a per diem allowance to the justices
of the magistrates district courts, be and the same is here-
by repealed, so far as relates to St. Mary's county.

Repealed, as re-
lates to Saint
Mary's co.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said justices of the
said district courts in St. Mary's county, shall be entitled
to receive such fees as are authorised by the act to which
this is a supplement, as a compensation for their services,
which said fees shall be divided amongst them in the same

Justices fees.