CITY COURT.

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Lazaretto lot, including said lot, and then with the lines of said

lot to the Patapsco river, at the termination of the last mentioned

line, to the most southern part of Whitestone Point, on the main

branch of Patapsco river, and running with and bounding on

the said main branch, excluding the land ceded to the United

States on Whitestone Point, for the uses of a fort, to the place

called the Ferry Point, being the junction of the said main

branch with the middle branch aforesaid, and thence due west

to the westward side of the middle branch aforesaid, and on the

west by a line running from the termination of the last men-

tioned line on the western shore of the middle branch, and

binding on the said shore to the mouth of Gwinn's falls, thence

up and with the south-west side of Gwinn's falls to a point

opposite to the mouth of Gwinn's run, thence with a straight

course to the mouth of Gwinn's run, and thence with a straight

line to the end of the aforementioned six hundred and forty

perch line ; and it shall be the duty of the judges of the said

court, as soon as practicable, to cause the lines aforesaid to be

surveyed, marked and bounded, and two plots thereof to be

made, one of which to be returned to the office of the clerk of

the said court, and the other to the office of the register of the

city of Baltimore, to be filed in their respective offices.

See as to the present \imits of the city, post, title 'Limits.*

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That all the power, jurisdiction

County

and authority, heretofore vested in, and exercised by, the court

court to

of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, or

exercise
certain

the judges thereof, in and over all that part of Baltimore county,

jurisdiction.

which is not included in the said city and precincts as above

described, shall be and are hereby vested in, and may be right-

fully exercised by, Baltimore county court, or the judges thereof,

and the expenses thereof shall be assessed upon the county, and

not upon the city or precincts aforesaid.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the times for holding the

Judges to

said Baltimore city court shall be fixed by the judges thereof at

fix the time
for holding

their first meeting tinder this act, and may be altered from time

court.

to time as to the said court may seem necessary.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the thief judge alone, or

Either

the two associate judges, shall have power (o call and hold the

judge to
call and

said court, and to adjourn the same from time to time as they
may think proper; and either one of the associate judges shall

adjourn the
court.

have power to call the said court, and adjourn the same from

day to day, but the said court shall not be considered in session

for the administration of justice unless the chief judge or both

the associate judges are present in court sitting.

See 1826, ch. 223, sec. I.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the sheriff of the said county,
for the time being, shall summon forty-eight good and lawful

Jurymen
to be sum-
moned.