T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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dollars of its capital stock shall have been actually paid
up in gold and silver coin, or in either, and not before,
shall be entitled to all the rights, powers and privileges,
and be subject to all the duties, restrictions, limitation
and conditions of the several banks comprehended in an
act entitled, an act to continue the corporate existence
of the several banking institutions therein mentioned,
passed at January session eighteen hundred and fifty-
three, chapter four hundred and forty-one, except that
the provisions therein contained shall have immediate
effect, and operation so fur as they are applicable to the
Bank of Commerce.

CHAPTER 236.

AN ACT to prescribe the fees to be charged and receiv-
ed by the Justices of the Peace in the several counties
in this State, and in the city of Baltimore.

Passed

Mar. 10, 1854.

WHEREAS, by the act of January session in the year

eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chapter two hun-
dred and thirty-nine, civil jurisdiction of justices
of the peace was extended to the sum of one hun-
dred dollars; and whereas, the duties and labor of
justices of the peace were thereby greatly increased
and it is right and proper that every person who de-
votes his time and labor to the public, should receive
a reasonable and adequate compensation for his ser-
vices, Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful, for the
several justices of the peace in the several counties of
this State, to have, charge, and be entitled to receive
the fees allowed and limited in the following table,
and such fees shall be taxed and paid by the party
against whom judgment shall be rendered, in all cases,
where the demand in controversy does not exceed fifty

Fees allowed.