1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 78.

Provisoes.

vided, that if any person against whom there is any
claim by the said Sutton, as sheriff as aforesaid, shall
make affidavit before a justice of the peace of the said
county, that the same has been paid, at any previous
time, to any person authorised to receive the same, it
shall prevent the said Sutton, and his deputies, from
collecting the said claim, in the manner prescribed by
law for collecting such claims; and provided also, that
this act shall Continue in force until the first day of De-
cember, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and no longer.

CHAPTER 78.

Passed

Feb. 18, 1850.

A further supplement to the act entitled, an ad for the
speedy recovery of Small Debts out of Court, passed
at November Session, seventeen hundred and ninety-
one.

Right of appeal
secured.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of
this act, in all cases of appeal from a judgment rendered
by any justice of the peace of this State, to the county
court, as is now provided for by law, and the justice,
rendering said judgment, going out of office, by death,
resignation, expiration of commission, or otherwise,
before an appeal bond in said appeal has been executed
by the party appealing, said appeal bond may be exe-
cuted before, and approved of by any other justice of the
peace, duly commissioned, in the same county, district,
or city, and said appeal bond shall be as binding and
valid in law as though the same had been executed
before, and approved of by the justice of the peace ren-
dering the judgment, appealed from.

Appeal bonds
made binding.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all appeal bonds
heretofore executed before and approved of by any other
justice of the peace, of the same county, district, or city,
than the justice of the peace rendering the judgment
appealed from, as is provided for by this act, shall be
of as full force, binding, and as valid in law, as though
the same had been executed before and approved of by
the justice rendering said judgment.

In force.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall go
into operation and take effect on and after the day of
the date of its passage.