Sec. 25. No new original bill shall be filed or recieved in the
fligh Court of Chancery of this State, from and after the ratifica
tion of this Constitution by the people of this State, nor shall any
cause be removed from any other court in the State to the said court
of Chancery from and after the said ratification; but all causes and
proceedings now pending or which may be pending in the said
court of Chancery at the time of the said ratification, shall be heard,
determined and proceeded with, by the present Chancellor or his
successor in office, until they shalt be brought to a final close, pro
vided the same be done in five years from the time of said ratifica
tion, and at the end and expiration of said five years, from the time
of the said ratification, or sooner if the said business in chancery be
sooner disposed of, the office of Chancellor of this State, and the
office of Register in Chancery shall be and they are hereby abolish
ed. The present Chancellor and Register in Chancery, and in
the event of any vacancy in their respective offices, their sucessors
in office respectively to be appointed as at present by the Governor
and Senate, shall during said five years or other shorter period re
ceive the same salary and compensation which they now receive.
The Legislature shall provide by law, for the recording, safe keep.
ing or other disposition of the records, decrees and other proceed
ing of the said court of Chancery, at he end and expiration of said
five years or other shorter period, and for the transmission to the
several counties of the State and City of Baltimore, of all such
causes and proceedings in said court as may be then undisposed of
and unfinished, in such manner, and under such regulations as
may be deemed necessary and proper.

Sec. 26. The present Judges of the county courts, of the Or
phan's courts, of Baltimore city court and of the magistrates
courts,and of the commissioners of insolvent debtors for the city of
Baltimore, and justices of the peace shall remain in office until the
election and quailification of the Judges, and justices of the peace
whose election is provided for by this Constitution and no longer.

Sec 27. The first election of Judges, Clerks, Registers and
Justices of the peace, and all other officers whose election by the
people is provided for in this article of the Constitution shall take
place throughout the State on the first Wednesday of October next,
after the ratification of this Constitution by the people.
Sec. 28. Whenever lands lie partly in one county, and partly in
another, or whenever persons proper to be made defendants to pro
ceedings in Chancery, reside, some in one county and some in an
other, that court shall have jurisdiction in which proceedings shall
have been first com menced, sublect to such rules, regulations and
alterations as may be prescribed by law.
Sec. 29. In all suits or actions at law, and in all presentments
and indictments, hereafter to be commenced or instituted in any of