WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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tent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are
hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 86.

CHAP. 86.

An act to extend the Jurisdiction of single Justices of the
Peace for Cecil County, and for other purposes.

Passed Mar. 5,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, all
single justices of the peace, in and for Cecil county, shall
have jurisdiction over, and may take cognizance of all
cases and in like manner, as they now have jurisdiction,
where the debt or damages laid or claimed do not exceed
the sum of one hundred dollars, exclusive of costs and in-
terest; and that in all cases heard, adjudged and determin-
ed before any single justice of the peace, when the debt or
damages adjudged and determined to be due, exceed the
sum of fifty dollars, they are hereby authorized and em-
powered to charge double the fees now allowed by law
to single justices of the peace, in like causes; and that
each party shah1 have and exercise the same right of ap-
peal to the county court, and in the same manner as is
now allowed from the judgment of single justices of the
peace.

Jurisdiction al-
lowed to single

justices, &c.

Fees to be
charged.

Right of appeal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That they shall have ju-
risdiction over, and take cognizance of all cases of reple-
vin, where the value of the property in dispute, when ap-
praised on the service of the writ of replevin, as herein
after provided, does not exceed the sum one hundred dol-
lars, in which action of replevin, the said single justice
may besides adjudging a return of the property, award
damages, as in a county court may be recovered in cases

Jurisdiction in

cases of reple-

vin, &c.

of replevin; provided however, that whenever a writ of
replevin shall be demanded from any justice of the peace,
according to the jurisdiction herein given to single justices
of the peace, it shall be the duty of said justice, before he
issues the same, to enquire and take from the party de-
manding such writ of replevin, a bond to the party holding
the property, with one or more securities, whom the said
justice shall in conscience believe to be worth double the
value of the specified articles of property intended to be
replevied, with condition, that the party replevying, his
executors or administrators, shall well and truly return

Proviso.