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CHAPTER 189.
A supplement to the act entitled, An Act, relating to Justices of the Peace,
in the city of Baltimore.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That, from and after the first day of April next, in all cases where
the real debt and damages doth not exceed one hundred dollars,
it shall and may be lawful for any one justice of the peace in and
for the city of Baltimore, to try, bear and determine the matter in
controversy between the creditor and debtor, and upon full hearing
of the allegations and evidences of both parties, to give judgment
according to the laws of the land, and the equity and right of the
matter, in the same manner, and under the same rules and regula-
tions, to all intents and purposes, as such justices of the peace
are now authorize and empowered to do, when the debt and
damages do not exceed the sum of fifty dollars current money.
2. And be it enacted, That in all cases where judgment shall be
rendered by any justice of the peace in and for the said city, for
any sum exceeding ten pounds current money, it shall be lawful
for the defendant or defendants to supersede the said judgment,
before the justice of the peace, rendering the same at any time
within sixty days from the rendition thereof, which supersedeas
shall stay execution for twelve months thereafter; and that if the
justice of the peace rendering the said judgment, shall die, move
away, or be removed from office, within sixty days after the ren-
dition of the said judgment, that they and in that case it shall and
may be lawful for the defendant or defendants to supersede the said
judgment before any other justice of the peace for the city of Bal-
timore at any time within sixty days from the rendition thereof,
which supersedeas shall stay execution for twelve months thereaf-
ter.
3. And be it enacted, That each justice of the peace in and for
the city aforesaid, may and shall have jurisdiction over, and may
try and decide all claims for taking, detaining, destroying or in-
juring any goods chattels or other personal property; and all
claims for cutting, pulling, digging up, carrying away, destroy-
ing or injuring any fruit, shrubbery, grain, vegetables, fences or
part of a fence; and also all claims against tenants or occupiers of
houses or tenements or other property, by the landlord, or owner
for any misuse, injury or damage to the same, caused or wilfully
permitted by such tenants or occupiers; and also of all claims
of tenants and occupiers against landlords and owners, for not
repairing in any of the said mentioned cases, where there is a
contrast for repairs, and the amount of claim, shall not exceed fifty
dollars, and also of all claims of tenants and occupiers against any
trespasser or trespassers, for injury to the premises in their tenure
and occupancy where the amount of damage does not exceed
fifty dollars.
4. And be it enacted, That the said justices shall hare jurisdic-
tion in all cases of claims on appeal bonds, and on constables
bonds, as well against the sureties as the principal; Provided, that
the claim shall not exceed one hundred dollars exclusive of costs.
5. And be it enacted, That the said justices shall have jurisdic-
tion in all cases of replevin, where the goods and chattels intended
to be replevied, do not exceed the value of fifty dollars; and that
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Dec. Ses. 1824
Passed Feb.
24, 1825.
Jurisdiction
of sums under
$100.
Supersedeas.
Further ju-
risdiction.
Jurisdiction
in appeal
bonds.
Constables
bonds.
Replevin.
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