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proper person to try said cause, and may try any cause before
the Court without the intervention of a jury.

Sec, 10. The Judge or Judges of any Court of this State,
except the Court of^ Appeals, may order and direct the record
of proceedings in any suit or action, issue or petition, pre-
sentment or indictment pending in such Court, to be trans-
mitted to some other Court in the same or an adjoining Cir-
cuit having jurisdiction in such causes, whenever any party
to such cause, or the counsel of any party, shall make it satis-
factorily appear to the Court that such party has a substantial
ground of action or defence, and cannot have a fair and im-
partial trial in the Court in which such suit or action, issue
or petition, presentment or indictment is pending; and the
General Assembly shall make* such modifications of existing
law as may be necessary to regulate and give force to this
provision.

Sec. 11. Every person of good moral character, being a
voter, shall be admitted to practice law in all the Courts of
this State, in his own case.

PART II.

COURT OF APPEALS.

Sec. 12. The Court of Appeals shall consist of a Chief
Justice and four Associate Justices, and for their selection the
State shall be divided into five Judicial Districts as follows,
viz: Worcester, Somerset, Dorchester, Talbot, Caroline,
Queen Anne, Kent and Cecil counties, shall compose the
first district; Harford and Baltimore counties, and the first
seven Wards of Baltimore city, shall compose the Second
District; Baltimore city, except the first seven Wards, shall
compose the Third District; Allegany, Washington, Frede-
rick, Howard and Carroll counties, shall compose the Fourth
District; St. Mary's, Charles, Anne Arundel, Calvert, Prince
George's and Montgomery counties, shall compose the Fifth
District; and one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals
shall be appointed from each of said Districts.

Sec. 13. The Court of Appeals shall hold its sessions in
the city of Annapolis, on the first Monday in April, and the
first Monday in October, in each and every year, or at such
other times as the General Assembly may by law direct, and
it shall be competent for the Judges of said Court, sufficient
cause appearing to them, temporarily to transfer their sit-
tings elsewhere.

Sec. 14. The jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals shall be
co-extensive with the limits of the State, and such as now is or

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