1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 517.

CHAPTER 517.

Passed Mar. 7,
1850.

An additional supplement to the act entitled, an act
for the speedy recovery of small debts out of Court,
and to repeal the acts of Assembly therein men-
tioned.

County courts
to try on appli-
cation, etc.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this
act, the several county courts of this State, be and they
are hereby authorised and required to hear, try and de-
termine all such appeals from the judgments of justices
of the peace, as now remain undetermined in, or which
may hereafter be taken to the said courts respectively,
when the appellant may have died or shall hereafter
die, after the appeal has been, or shall hereafter be
taken, and before the trial thereof, on the petition of the
executor or executors, administrator or administrators of
such deceased parly, to be filed by the second term af-
ter the death of such appellant, to be admitted to prose-
cute the appeal in the place of such deceased party, in
as full and ample manner as the said courts are now
authorised to hear and determine appeals from judg-
ments of justices of the peace, in other cases.

Non Resident
plaintiff, etc.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the
passage of this act, every person being a non resident of
this State at the time any appeal from a judgment of a
justice, of the peace, may or shall come up for trial in
in any of the county courts of this State, and who now
is or who may hereafter become a parly to any such
appeal now remaining undetermined in any of said
courts, or which may hereafter be taken to said courts,
or any of them, where such non residents has been, is
now or shall hereafter be the plaintiff in the suit or ac-
tion before the justice of the peace, in which such ap-
peal has been or may hereafter be taken, shall be re-
quired by the said courts respectively, on the applica-
tion of the opposite parly, at any time before trial of
any such appeal, to give security for all costs and charges
that such opposite party may be put to, or which such
opposite party has incurred or may hereafter incur,
either in the proceedings before the justice of the peace,
or in any of said courts respectively, in prosecuting or
defending such appeal, as the case may be, in the event
of such plaintiff, being defeated in the appeal, or of judg-
ment being given against him otherwise, in the same
manner and according to the same rules, in by which
non resident plaintiffs are now required to give security
for costs in suits originally instituted in said courts and
should such non resident fail to give such security by the