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ing of the first General Assembly after the ratification of this
constitution, at which time, or sooner if the said business shall be
finished, the said Chancery court and the office of Chancellor as
well as the office of Register in Chancery shall be abolished, until
which time the salary of the Chancellor and the fees of office of
the Register in Chancery shall remain the same as they now are,
and in the event of a vacancy in either the said office of Chancel
lor or of Register in Clancery, the same shall be filled in the
manner now provided for, and when the said Chancery court shall
be abolished, the Legislature shall provide by law for the safe
keeping and disposition of the records and proceedings of said
court as it may deem necessary and proper.
7th. The Orphans courts and Magistrates courts of the State
and the office of commissoners of insolvent debtors for the city of
Baltimore to be aboIished, and their jurisdiction vested respective
by in the several courts heretofore mentioned.
8th. The jurisdiction of single justices of the peace to be ex
tended to one hundred dollars with the right of immedate appeal
to the several courts respectively hereinbefore mentioned.
9th. The clerks of the Count of Appeals for the Eastern and
Western Shores, to be annually appointed by the Judges of said
court, all other clerks of courts, and die Registers of Wills for the
county and city of Baltimore, to be elected by the people of said
counties and city respectively for a term not exceeding seven
years, and to be re-elgible at the expiration of their terms.
10th. The fees of Clerks and Registers of Wills to be abolished,
and fixed salaries to be provided by law, for the Registers of Wills,
to be paid by the counties and city of Baltimore respectively, and
the Legislature to provide by law some certain and simple mode
of compensation to c'erks, in lieu of the present system of fees.
11th. Justices of the peace, Sheriff's, Constables and Coroners
to be appointed, as now provided for, and their fees of office to
remain the same.
12th. All judgments, decrees and orders in Chaneery, interlocu
tory order's and other proceedings of courts of competent jurisdic-
tion in this State, and all public or private acts of Assembly when.
ver relied upon in the progress of a cause in any of the courts of
the State, to be allowed to be given in evidence, under the general
issue, and the courts to be prohibited from passing rules of court
requiring them to be specially pleaded.
13th. All special pleading to be abolished in the courts of the
State, and every matter pertinant or material to the merits of a
cause to be given in evidence under the general issue and without
being plead specially.
14th. The trial of Judges by impeachment only, and the
doctrine of contempts of court, to be held as utterly odious, and in
deragation of the rights of the citizens, and, as establishing in the
persons of Judges perogative privileges and immunities, not belong
ing to other citizens of the State.
15th. Judges for wilful misbehaviour, and other official misde.