THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

school fund for eighteen hundred and forty-eight, distri-
butable to said school district when the same shall be-
come due, and are hereby required to appropriate the
same to the building a suitable school house on the same
lot on which the original house stood.

CHAPTER 217.

CHAP. 217.

A further supplement, as regards the City of Baltimore,
to the act passed at November session, seventeen hundred

and ninety-three, chapter forty-three, entitled, an act to
provide a summary mode of recovering the possession
of lands and tenements holden by tenants for years or
at will, after the expiration of their terms.

Passed March
5, 1847.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all cases of tenancies within the city

of Baltimore, a justice of the peace of said city may, on
complaint to him, and on a summons to the tenant his
executors or administrators, by him to be issued, exer-
cise all the powers and jurisdiction granted to the two
justices and the jury by the act to which this is a sup-
plement, and by the supplement thereto in relation to
said city, passed at December session of the year eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-one, chapter three hundred and

eighteen.

Exercise all

the powers &

jurisdiction.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from any judgment
of said justice in the said case, an appeal may be pros-
ecuted to Baltimore county court, in manner and under
the rules as prescribed or allowed in cases within the
ordinary jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, the tenant
or his executors or admnistrators, in order to stay exe-
cution of the judgment against them, giving on such
appeal; bond with security; in manner and to effect as is
prescribed in cases of certiorari, by the supplement
aforesaid of eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter
three hundred and eighteen.

An appeal, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said case shall
not be removable to the said county court at any stage
thereof, save by and upon an appeal as aforesaid.

Not removea-
ble.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if the summons issued
for the tenant, his executors or administrators shall be
returned without being served, and with a return, that
he is not to be found, a second summons, returnable in

Summons is-

sued.