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Cresaptown, the sum of $1,077.50 each; to the Bowman's Addition
Fire Company, the Clarysville Fire Company, the Flintstone Fire
Company, District No. 16 Fire Company, the Bedford Road Fire
Company, the Baltimore Pike Fire Company, the Ellerslie Fire Com-
pany, the Bowling Green Fire Company, the Borden Shaft Fire Com-
pany, the McCoole Fire Department [and] , the Corrigansville Fire
Department and the Oldtown Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., the
sum of $938.40 each; and to the Chapel Hill Base Company and the
Cumberland Hose Company, the sum of $150.00 each.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved March 11, 1959.

CHAPTER 165

(Senate Bill 252)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 6(b)
and (d) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title "Civil Juris-
diction", relating to the civil jurisdiction of trial magistrates in
Queen Anne's County, and relating generally thereto.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 6(b) and (d) of Article 52 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Justices of the Peace", sub-title
"Civil Jurisdiction", be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

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(b) Trial magistrates of Garrett [, Queen Anne's] and Somerset
counties shall have civil jurisdiction in all cases hereinbefore men-
tioned in this section and involving amounts not exceeding two hun-
dred dollars.

(d) Trial magistrates of Cecil, Charles, Washington [and] ,
Wicomico and Queen Anne's counties shall have civil jurisdiction
in all cases hereinbefore mentioned in this section instituted after
June 1, 1955, in Cecil County, after June 1, 1951, in Charles County,
[and] after June 1, 1953, in Washington and Wicomico counties,
and after June 1, 1959, in Queen Anne's County, and involving
amounts not exceeding five hundred dollars, except that in Cecil
County cases involving in excess of $100.00 may be tried only before
the trial magistrate who sits in Elkton.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved March 11, 1959.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.
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