ART. IV] CONSTITUTION.

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It shall also be the duty of said Judges of the Court of
Appeals, as soon after their election as practicable, to
devise and promulgate by rules or orders, forms and
modes of framing and filing bills, answers and other pro-
ceedings and pleadings in Equity; and also forms and
modes of taking and obtaining evidence, to be used in
Equity cases; and to revise and regulate, generally, the
practice in the Courts of Equity of this State, so as to
prevent delays-, and to promote brevity and conciseness
in all pleadings and proceedings therein, and to abolish
all unnecessary costs and expenses attending the same.
And all rules and regulations hereby directed to be made
shall, when made, have the force of Law until rescinded,
changed or modified by the said Judges, or the General
Assembly.

B. &. O. R. R. Co. v. State, 29 Md. 252. Gabelein v. Plaenker,
36 Md. 61. Meloy v. Squires, 42 Md. 378.

Part III. — Circuit Courts.

R ules in
Equity.

Sec. 19. The State shall be divided into eight Judicial
Circuits, in manner following, viz: The Counties of
Worcester, Somerset, Dorchester and Wicomico,* shall
constitute the First Circuit; the Counties of Caroline,
Talbot, Queen Anne's, Kent and Cecil, the Second; the
Counties of Baltimore and Harford, the Third; the
Counties of Allegany, Washington and Garrett,! the
Fourth; the Counties of Carroll, Howard and Anne
Arundel, the Fifth; the Counties of Montgomery and
Frederick, the Sixth: the Counties of Prince George's,
Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's, the Seventh, and
Baltimore City, the Eighth.

Judicial Cir-
cuits.

Sec. 20. A Court shall be held in each County of the
State, to be styled the Circuit Court for the County in
which it may be held. The said Circuit Courts shall
have and exercise, in the respective Counties, all the
power, authority andjurisdiction, original and appellate,
which the present Circuit Courts of this State now have
and exercise, or which may hereafter be prescribed by
Law.

Truettv. Legg, 32 Md. 147.

*Wicomico formed since the adoption of this Constitution.
t Garrett formed since the adoption of this Constitution

County
Courts.

Jurisdiction.