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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 83.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of an
additional Justice of the Peace for Election
District, number four, in Harford County.

Additional
justice of Peace

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Governor be and he is
hereby authorized and empowered to appoint an
additional Justice of the Peace for Election Dis-
trict, number four, in Harford County.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 12, 1870.

CHAPTER 84.

AN ACT to add new Sections to Article fifty-one
of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled
Justices of the Peace, as amended by the Act
of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, Chapter
four hundred and forty-three.

Additional
section.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That there shall he added the fol-
lowing Sections to Article fifty-one of the Code of
Public General Laws, entitled Justices of the
Peace.

Execution on
judgment.

69. When an execution on a judgment of a
Justice of the Peace is levied upon property
claimed by any person other than the party against
whom it issued, such person or his agent or At-
torney may apply to a Justice of the Peace of the
county or corporation in which the levy is for a
warrant to a constable, requiring him to summon
both the judgment creditor and debtor, to show
cause why the property so levied upon should not
be discharged from the levy, and said warrant
shall be returnable in not less than five days; and
if an earlier day shall have been fixed for the sale
of the property so levied upon, the Justice shall