CITY COURT.

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porate the inhabitants thereof, be and are hereby continued until

the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and three.

SEC. 13. And be if enacted. That all and every part of the

Sections,

twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth sections of an act

&c. re-
pealed, &c.

passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-

three, entitled, an act respecting the punishment of criminals,

and all and every part of an act passed at November session,

seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, an act to separate

the criminal business arising in the county and city of Balti-

more, and all and every part of an act passed at Novembef

session, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled, an act

respecting the criminal business of the city and county of Balti-

more, be and the same is hereby declared to be repealed and

made void from the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That this act shall be in force

Duration

and have continuance until the thirtieth day of January, eigh-

teen hundred and three.

Since continued by 1803, ch. 110, and the annual continuing laws.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for the Admi-

nistration of Justice in cases of Crimes and Misdemeanors in the City

and County of Baltimore. — 1800, ch. 31.

Sfcc. 1, 2. Discontinued by 1802, ch. 106.

SEC. 3. Merged in 1809, ch. 138, sec. 7, ante page 580.

SEC. 4. Merged in 1816, ch. 193, sec. 9.

AN Act authorizing the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery

in Baltimore County to make the Assessments therein mentioned.—

1814, ch. 118.

See 'Baltimore County Jail'

AN ACT to provide for the Administration of Justice in Cases of* Crimes

and Misdemeanors in the City and Precincts of Baltimore. — 1816, ch.

193.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Judges tor

That from and after the first day of March next, the trial and

bo appoint-

cognizance of all felonies, and other crimes, offences and mis-

ed for city
court,

demeanors, and other matters arising within the city and pre-

which is to
be vested

cincts of Baltimore, which are at this time cognizable by the

with all the

court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore

powers of
court of

county, shall be inquired into, heard, tried and determined,

oyer and

within the said city and precincts, as follows: that is to say, the

terminer.

governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council,

shall issue a commission to three persons of integrity, experi-

ence, and sound legal knowledge, residing within the city or

precincts of Baltimore, one of whom shall be styled in the said

commission chief judge of Baltimore city court, and the other

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