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general election for County Officers, when a Clerk of said
ircuit Court shall be elected to serve lor six years thereafter.
Sec. —. The Judges of the respective Circuit Courts of
this State, shall render their decisions in all cases argued be-
fore them, or submitted for their judgment, within two
months after the same shall have been so argued or sub-
mitted.
PAET V—ORPHANS' COURT.
Sec. —. There shall be an Orphans' Court in each of the
counties of this State, which shall have and exercise all the
powers, authority and jurisdiction now had and exercised by
the Orphans' Courts, except power to decree sales of real
estate, subject to such changes as the Legislature may pre-
scribe, and shall have power to revise, review and correct all
proceedings of the Register of Wills, and shall have such
other jurisdiction as may hereafter be prescribed by law.
Sec. —. The Judge of the Circuit Court for each county
in the State shall also sit and act as Judge of the Orphans'
Court in each of the counties comprised within his Circuit,
and shall hold terms of said Courts as he may deem neces-
sary, or as may hereafter be prescribed by law; provided
such terms are never less than four in each year in each
county j and in case any Judge of the Orphans' Court shall
be disqualified or unable to sit in any cause pending in such
Court, the Judge of an adjoining Circuit may hear and de-
termine the same in the place of such disqualified Judge.
Sec. —. There shall be a Register of Wills in each county of
the State to be elected by the legal and qualified voters of
said counties respectively, who shall hold his office for six
years from the time of his election, and until his successor is
elected and qualified; he shall be re-eligible, and subject at
all times to removal for wilful neglect of duty or misde-
meanor in office, in the same manner that clerks of the courts
are removable. In the event of any vacancy in the office of
Register of Wills, said vacancy shall be filled by the Judge
of the Orphan's Court in which such vacancy occurs until the
next general election of Delegates to the General Assembly,
when a Register of Wills shall be elected to serve for six
years.
Sec. —. The Register of Wills shall perform all the du-
ties pertaining to his office which are now or may be hereaf-
ter prescribed by law, and in the absence of the Judge shall
have and exercise all the powers vested in the Orphan's
Court, subject to such rules and regulations as the Judge of
such Court may prescribe; provided, however, that it shall
be the duty of the said Register in any suitj cause, action or
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