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Mr. Tarr, of Caroline, moved an amendment placing
Caroline county in the second instead of the first judicial
circuit, which was agreed to.
Mr. Watkins, of Montgomery, then offered a substitute
for the whole section, reducing the number of circuits to
seven, and specifying the same, which was rejected.
No further amendments being proposed, section 20 was
read and passed over without amendment.
Section 21 was then read: It provides that in each cir-
cuit (except the 8th) there shall be a chief judge and two
associates, &c.
Mr. Mackubin submitted the following amendment,
which was agreed to:
"Strike out the words, the said judges shall hold a term
of the Circuit Court in each of the counties composing
their respective circuits, at such time or times as now are
or may hereafter be fixed by law, such terms not to be
less than two in each year, and insert 'the said judges
shall hold not less than two terms of the Circuit Court in
each of the counties composing their respective circuits,
at such times as are now or may hereafter be prescribed,
to which jurors shall be summoned, and in those counties
where only two such terms are held, two other and inter-
mediate terms, to which jurors shall not be summoned;
they. may alter or fix the times for holding any or all
terms until otherwise prescribed, and shall adopt rules to
the end that all business not requiring the interposition
of a jury, shall be as far as practicable, disposed of at
said intermediate terms. ' "
The Convention then, at 10. 10 P. M., adjourned.
SIXTIETH DAY.
ANNAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31.
The Declaration of Rights was taken up on its third
reading, and a number of verbal amendments reported
by the committee on revision and compilation were made,
Mr. Peters moved as a substitute for the second article
that "the constitution of the State of Maryland shall be
the supreme law of the State. "
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