ESTIMATES:
1st. Of the cost of the Judiciary system, hereby proposed:—
4 Judges of the Court of Appeals at $2,200 each, $8,800 00
11 District Judges at $2,500 each,27,500 00
Whole cost per aunum, when in full operation, $35,300 00
2nd. O the cost of the present Judiciary of this State, in
cluding the supposer cost of 209 Justices of Ma
gistrates' Courts, which are reported to be now in
commission, as estimated by the committee on
Judiciary, $98,100 00

3rd. Of the cost of the system reported by the said
committee, as estimated by themselves, 61 ,000 00
Add for one Judge for Howard Co., now established, $2,000 00
— $63,000 00
The system now submitted proposes to do the same work for a
sum, scarcely more than half the cost of the system reported by
the committee, and a fraction only above one-third of what the
committee estimate to be the cost of the present system; and it is
submitted with a far greater probability of having it well and
promptly done.
But this allusion to the estimated cost of the present system,
must not he understood as an admission of the correctness of the
committee's estimate; on the contrary, that estimate, is believed to
be extravagant and far above the actrial cost. The committee best
understand the cost of their own scheme, and therefore their esti
mate of its cost $61,000, is assumed to be correct.
Which was read, and
On motion of Mr. Crisfield,
Ordered to be printed.
The Hour having arrived for resuming the consideration of the
order of the day, being the report submitted by Mr. Grason, chair.
man of the committee on the Executive Department;
Mr. Gwinn moved to postpone the consideration of said order
of the day.
Determined in the affirmative.
On motion of Mr. Schley,
The Convention took up for consideration the report submitted
by Mr. Shriver, on the 15th o f February, as chairman of the
committee on the Attorney General and his Deputies.
The first section of said report having been read,
Mr. Crisfield moved to postpone the consideration of said section.
Mr. Gwinn moved the question be taken by yeas and nays, and
being ordered appeared as follows