COUNTY COURT.

1603

amount so received by the treasurer, in any year, after the pay-
ment of the said sum of eight hundred dollars, to each of the
said judges, shall be and enure to the benefit of the state.
See as to the surplus, 1837, ch. 72.
This act was re-enacted by 1834, ch. 233, sec. 1.
Our legislation in relation to this court is distinguished by great inatten-
tion to appropriate and perspicuous arrangement.
This act (1828, ch. 127,) provides an additional compensation to the
judges, for the increased duties imposed by an act, entitled, 'an act for the
despatch of business in Baltimore county court,1 (1828, ch. 161,) which
from the statute book, had not then passed. It is presumed that the mis-
take originates by giving an earlier number (ch. 127) to the junior chapter.
The act (ch. 161) passed on the 3d of March. This act (ch. 127) giving
the additional compensation, passed on the 7th of March, yet it has priority
in numerical arrangement over rh. 161, the elder act.
Again, 1834, ch. 233, re-enacts in the very same words., (indeed, it is
a re-print, and both passed on the same day,) every section of ch. 211,
of the same session, without any repealing clause of the sections thus re-
enacted.

AN ACT for the despatch of Business in Baltimore County Court.— 1828,
ch. 161.
SEC. 1. Repealed by 1834, ch. 211, sec. 1, and by ch. 233, sec* 1.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the two terms of April and
November in each and every year, shall be called county terms,
and shall be exclusively set apart and appointed for the trials of
causes, and hearing appeals, in which the defendants shall have
been residents of the county, without the limits of the city, at
the time of the institution of the suit, or rendition of the judg-
ment, appealed from ; and also for the trial of all criminal cases
within the jurisdiction of the court ; and the grand and petit
jurors, required to attend said court, during the said two terms,
shall be summoned from the county without the limits of the
said city, and shall be required to attend on the first day of
each of the said terms.

Terms of
April and
November
to be called
county
terms.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the remaining eight terms
shall be called city terms, and that the sheriff of Baltimore
county shall summon, in the manner now required by law,
twenty-four persons from the said city, to serve as jurors for
each and every of said terms, who shall be entitled to a per
diem allowance of fifty cents, to be paid in the manner now
provided by law.
Repealed by 1834, ch. 211, sec. 1, and by 1834, ch. 233, sec. I, except so
much thereof as relates to jurors. See 1830, ch. 159, sec. 2.
SEC. 4, 5, 6. Repealed by the rfbove acts.

Remaining
terms to bo
called city
terms.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted. That all process issuing from the
common law side of said court, when the defendant or defen-
dants shall be residents of the county aforesaid, may bear tette
on the first day of the last county term, and be made returnable
on the first day of the county term next thereafter, and all pro-

Process on
common '
law side
may bear
teste on first
day of last
term, &c.