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years embraced in the foregoing order, have found one hundred
and forty-nine indictments, which have bean disposed of iu
the following manner :
Convicted ............................................ 61
Acquitted ............................................ 25
Cases stetted....................................... 25
Quashed.............................................. 13
Removed on suggestion and affidavit......... 17
Remaining on docket for trial.................. 18
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All of which is respectfully submitted.
W. W. WATKINS,
Clerk.
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OFFICE CLERK CIRCUIT COURT,
HOWARD COUNTY,
Ellicott City, May 17, 1867.
Hon. R. B. CARMICHAEL,
President of the Constitutional Convention :
Sir :—I have the honor in obedience to order to submit for
the use of the Constitutional Convention the accompanying
report:
There were held eight terms of the Circuit Court for How-
ard County at the Court House in Ellicott's Mills, embracing
the years 1865 and '66, four Equity and four Law Terms.
The first, a Law Term, commenced on the third Monday
of March, 1865, and the Petit Jury was in attendance 16
days.
There were 22 original suits brought to this term on the
appearance docket; 29 Civil cases were disposed of on the
trial docket, only one of which was tried by a jury.
The criminal indictments found at this term by the Grand.
Jury were 9.
The criminal cases tried and disposed of were 29, two of
which were jury trials.
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1865.
The appearance docket contained 35 cases.
The Civil trials amounted to 40 cases, three of which were
jury trials.
38 indictments were found by the Gxand Jury, and the
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