decision in any case in the County Court
shall withdraw from the Bench upon the
deciding of the same case before the
Court of Appeals; and the Judges of the
Court of Appeals may appoint the Clerks
of said Court for the Western and
Eastern Shores respectively, who shall
hold their appointments during good
behavior, removable only for misbe-
havior, on conviction in a Court of Law;
and, in case of death, resignation, dis-
qualification, or removal out of the
State, or from their respective Shores, of
either of the said Clerks in the vacation
of the said Court, the Governor, with
the advice of the Council, may appoint
and commission a fit and proper person
to such vacant Office, to hold the same
until the next meeting of the said Court ;
and all Laws passed after this act shall
take effect shall be recorded in the Office
of the Court of Appeals of the Western
Shore.
1807
Proposed by Act of 1806, chapter 29.
Ratified 1807.
Saint Mary's County shall be divided
into four separate districts and that the
additional District shall be laid off ad-
joining and between the first and third
districts as (they) are now numbered.
1809
(June Session)
Proposed by Act of 1809, chapter 16.
Ratified 1809.
Hereafter upon the death resignation,
or removal out of this State of the Gov-
ernor, it shall not be necessary to call a
meeting of the Legislature to fill the
vacancy occasioned thereby but the first
named of the Council for the time being
shall qualify and act as Governor, until
the next meeting of the General Assem-
bly, at which meeting a Governor shall
be chosen in the manner heretofore
appointed and directed.
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No Governor shall be capable of hold-
ing any other office of profit, during the
time for which he shall be elected.
1810
Proposed by Act of 1809, chapter 38.
Ratified 1810.
No person residing in the City of
Annapolis, shall have a vote in the
County of Anne Arundel for Delegates
for the said County; and all and every
part of the Constitution, which enables
persons holding fifty acres of land to
vote in said county, shall be and the
same are hereby repealed and abolished.
Proposed by Act of 1809, chapter 65.
Ratified 1810.
The forty fifth article of the Consti-
tution and form of Government be and
the same is hereby repealed and utterly
abolished.
Proposed by Act of 1809, chapter 83.
Ratified 1810.
Every free white male Citizen of this
State above twenty one years of age,
and no other having resided twelve
months within this State and six months
in the County, or in the City of Annap-
olis or Baltimore next preceding the
election at which he offers to vote, shall
have a right of suffrage and shall vote
by ballot in the election of such County
or city, or either of them for electors of
the president and vice president of the
united States, for representatives of this
State in the Congress of the United
States, for delegates to the General
Assembly of this State, electors of the
senate and sheriffs.
Proposed by Act of 1809, chapter 167.
Ratified 1810.
It shall not be lawful for the General
Assembly of this State to lay an equal
and general Tax, or any other Tax, on
the people of this State, for the support
of any religion.
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