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General Assembly may direct; provided, such terms shall
never be less than four in each year, and in case any judge
of the Orphans' Court shall be disqualified or unable to
sit in any case pending in such court, any judge of the
same circuit assigned thereto by the judges of the circuit
may hear and determine the same in the place of such
disqualified judge. All the acts of the said judges in
said courts shall be done in the name of the Orphans'
Court of said city and county respectively, and when re-
quired, shall be so certified.
Sec. 37. The Orphans' Courts shall have all the pow-
ers now vested by law in the Orphans' Courts of this
State, except the power to decree sales of real estate.
Sec. 38. There shall be a register of wills in each
county of the State and in the city of Baltimore, to be
elected by the legal and qualified voters of said counties
and city, respectively, who shall hold his office for six
years.
Secs. 39 and 40. The provisions in relation to justices
of the peace and constables are the same as in the present
constitution.
Sec. 41. The term of office of sheriff is fixed at four
years.
Sec. 42. Coroners, elisors and notaries public to be ap-
pointed as at present.
The unfinished business, being the report of the com-
mittee on the legislative department, was then taken up.
Several sections were considered and amended.
Mr. McKaig moved to increase the amount which may
be appropriated for internal improvement in St. Mary's,
Charles and Calvert counties from $300, 000 to $400, 000.
Mr. Syester moved to increase the amount to $800, 000,
as an act of simple justice to that section of the State,
which had, by its voice in the Legislature, given such lib-
eral aid to the internal improvements of the western sec-
tion of the State.
After a protracted debate, the motion to increase the
amount to $800, 000 was disagreed to. The amendment
of Mr. McKaig was then adopted.
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