1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 269.

of their capital stock actually paid in, or which may
from time to time be paid in, and in case any such pay-
ment shall not be made within six months after the said
bank shall go into operation, or after any additional pay-
ment shall be made on its said capital stock, then the
charter shall be deemed and taken to be absolutely for-
feited and void.

In force, &c.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That this act shall con- .
tinue in force until the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
nine, and until the end of the next session of the Gene-
ral Assembly which shall happen thereafter.

CHAPTER 269.

Passed Mar. 2,
1850.

An act giving Jurisdiction to single Justices of the
Peace over cases Attachment in this State.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, public convenience would be promoted
by extending to single justices of the peace jurisdiction
in cases of attachment in cases of small debts — There
fore,

Jurisdiction of
single justices
of the peace
extended to ca-
ses of attach-
ment not ex-
ceeding fifty
dollars.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That whenever any person or persons
shall be indebted to any other person or persons, in a
sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and the said creditor or
creditors shall make oath or affirmation before any jus-
tice of the peace of the State of Maryland, that the said
debtor or debtors is or are indebted unto him, her or
them, in the sum of not exceeding fifty dollars, and that
the said debtor or debtors do not reside within the limits
of the State of Maryland, or that he, she or they is or
are credibly informed and verily believes, that the said
debtor or debtors hath or have absconded from his, her
or their place of abode, whereby his, her or their credi-
tors may be injured or defrauded, and shall at the same
time produce before the said justice of the peace, the
covenant, bill, bond, note or account, or other evidence of
the debt, it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the
peace, to issue an attachment returnable before the justice
of the peace who issued the same, upon a day certain to
be therein named, not less than twenty days, and not
more than thirty days, from the date of the issuing the
said writ of attachment, against the goods and chattels,
rights and credits, lands and tenements of the said absent
or absconding defendant, which are or shall be in the