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in the city of Baltimore, whose term in office
shall continue for four years, with a compensa-
tion to be regulated by law, to be elected by a
plurality of the qualified voters of the county
and the city of Baltimore respectively, and who
number of meetings of said courts to be held in
each year in the city of Baltimore, and the sev-
eral counties of this State, respectively, and the
time when said meetings shall be held,"
Mr. B. said: I am perfectly satisfied that with
a per diem allowance there can be no abuse, if
the time and number of the meetings are fixed
by law. If the judge to be elected for the or-
phans' court receives $2 per day, he may. un-
less some regulation is made, hold the court for
three hundred days in the year, and thus receive
a salary of $600, which is three times as much
as the orphans' court costs in Carroll county
under the present system. I have never yet
heard, except from gentlemen of the bar, or
immediately around the court-house, any objec-
tions to the present system, until I heard them
in this body. We have changed that system,
and by the new system we put a heavy cost
upon the people unless the meetings are limited
by law. He will meet perhaps to-day at 11
o'clock, and if no one calls within an hour, he
will go for that day, and come again to-morrow.
I think this amendment is absolutely necessary,
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