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BALTIMORE CITY.

two shall be styled in the said commission, associate judges of

the said court ; and the said chief judge and associate judges

shall hold their commissions during good behaviour, removable

according to the constitution of this state, and not otherwise;

and from and after the issuing said commission, all the powers.

jurisdiction and authority, vested in, and now held and exer-

cised by, the court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for

Baltimore county, or the justices thereof, within the said city

and precincts, shall be and are hereby vested in, and may be

rightfully exercised by, Baltimore city court, or the judges

thereof.

To decide

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That on the commencement of

all claims
now pend-

this act all causes, pleas, process and proceedings, depending in

ing in court
of oyer and

the court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore

terminer.

county, shall be heard, tried and determined, before the justices

appointed and commissioned in virtue of this act ; and that all

process which hath been issued or shall issue from the court of

oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, re-

turnable to the next term of the said court, and all recogni-

zances which have been, or shall be taken, returnable to the

next term of the said court, shall be returned to the first term

of the court to be holden under this law.

To appoint

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the judges of Baltimore city

a clerk.

court, shall appoint a fit and proper person, as clerk to the said

court, who shall receive into his custody all the records, books

and proceedings, now remaining in the office of the clerk of the

court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore

county, and who shall be entitled to receive the same fees as

are now allowed by law to the clerk of the court of oyer and

terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county.

SEC. 4. Continues the then Clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and

Gaol Delivery until a Clerk is appointed.

Limits of

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That all that part of Baltimore

city and
precincts.

county, which lies within the following lines, shall be deemed,

taken and considered, as composing the city and precincts of

Baltimore} within the meaning and intent of this act; that is to

say, bounded on the north by a line, (bound on the north by a

line) drawn parallel with Baltimore street in the said city,

through a point one mile and an half due north from the centre

of Baltimore and Calvert streets in the said city, and extending

eastwardly some hundred perches from the said point to a public

road passing from the Philadelphia post road, between the

dwellings of Amos Loney, Thomas Worthington, and others,

and westwardly six hundred and forty perches from the same

point, on the east, by a line binding on the east side of said

load, to the Philadelphia post road, and from the Philadelphia

post road, by a straight line, to the northeast corner of the