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provided, that the following notice shall be given in the summons is-
sued in such case: "The defendant is hereby notified that judgment by
default may be entered against him unless he shall file an affidavit of
defense with the Justice of the Peace before whom this summons is
returnable within six days next succeeding the return day named
herein, or such additional time as may be fixed by said Justice of the
Peace." And where the defendant shall have acknowledged in his af-
fidavit of defense his liability for a part of the plaintiff's claim as
aforesaid, the plaintiff, if he so elect, may have judgment entered in
his favor for the amount so confessed to be due. After taking such
final judgment for the amount so confessed, the plaintiff shall have
the right to prosecute the remainder of his claim in that suit, and
and (if he sustains his claim for such remainder or any part thereof)
to have a further final judgment therefor. The provisions of this sec-
tion shall not apply in Baltimore City.]

Section 37. And be it further enacted, That Sections 2, 5, 10(a),
and 12 (a) of Article 36 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1971 Supplement), title, "Fees of Officers,"
subtitles, "Accounts," "Execution For Fees," "Attorneys," and
"Clerks of Court," respectively, be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows :

§ 2. Approval by judges of circuit courts; criminal cases where
jurisdiction is in the District Court; counties to which
applicable.

[No account for officers' fees by any of the several officers herein
named, rendered for services to or in behalf of the counties of this
State in this section named, shall be allowed by the county commis-
sioners thereof until said account has been submitted to and approved
by the judges of the circuit court for said county or a majority
thereof; and n]No charges CHARGE for officers' fees shall be paid
or allowed by the county commissioners aforesaid in any criminal case
where jurisdiction to try, hear and determine the matter charged
against the party accused has been conferred by law upon [justices
of the peace] the District Court, but the county commissioners may
levy or pay to the officers performing service in such cases such
compensation as they in their discretion may deem right and proper.
This section shall apply only to the counties of Caroline, Kent, Queen
Anne's, Talbot, Prince George's, Charles and Harford.

§ 5. Receiving or demanding fees already paid.

If any officer shall, by himself or his deputies, agents or clerks, ask,
receive or demand any fees herein allowed, after the same have been
paid, he shall for each offense forfeit and pay ten dollars, to be recov-
ered before a [justice of the peace] court as small debts [, one half
to the use of the informer, and the other half for the State]; and
shall, in addition, return to the party the fees so improperly received.

§ 10. Enumeration; disposition of appearance fees in Harford
County.

(a) EXCEPT IN THE DISTRICT COURT, Attorneys ATTOR-
NEYS at law shall be entitled to demand and receive the following
fees, to wit: