LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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the same, on which such process may be issued, by any
justice of the peace as might have been issued by the justice
who may have kept such docket; and for such transcripts
the clerk shall be entitled to receive the like fees as for o-
ther copies of records, under the penalty of forty dollars,
to be recovered by any person who shall sue for the same,
in the same manner as debts of that amount are recovera-

ble by law.

DEC. SESS.
1814.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissions
for the justices of the peace shall be forwarded by the

clerk of the council to the clerks of the respective county
courts, who shall immediately on the receipt thereof, en-
ter the same among the records of his office, and cause
notice to be given to the several persons therein
named of their appointment, by advertisement set up
at the court house door. And every person so ap-
pointed and notified as aforesaid, if he accepts thereof,
unless he had been included in the commission of the
peace for the preceding year, and had taken the oaths,
and made the declaration prescribed by law, shall quali-
fy as such, before some person authorised by law; which
qualification shall be certified by the person before whom
the same shall be made, and such certificate or certifi-
cates shall be delivered to, and recorded by the clerk of

Notice of ap-

pointment &c.

the county court, in a book to be kept for that purpose.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person

commissioned a justice of the peace, shall act as such
before he hath taken the several oaths and made the decla-
ration required by law, and caused a certificate thereof to
be delivered to the clerk of the county court as aforesaid,
he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of
forty dollars, to be recovered and applied as other for-
feitures and penalties are directed by law.

Penalty.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any justice of

the peace having qualified as such, shall accept of any
office under the government of the United States and
shall still act as a justice of the peace, he shall forfeit and
pay for every such offence the sum of forty dollars, to
be recovered before a justice of the peace in the name
of the state, one half to the informer and the other halt to
be applied to the use of the county.

Shall not hold
offices under
the general
government--penalty.

CHAPTER 83.

An act to incorporate the Powhatan Manufacturing Com-
pany of Maryland.
SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Nathan Levering, Enoch Levering,
Jesse Levering, William Wilson, junior, Samuel Har-
den, John M'Kim, junior, J. F. Schwartze, A. J.
Schwartze and William Lorman, their associates, such
cessors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a
corporation and body politic, by the name and style of

Passed Jan.

24, 1815.
Style— effect
in law.