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husband's brother, or sister's husband ; shall be and the same is
hereby repealed and made void; and all marriages heretofore
made and celebrated by and between persons related within the
degrees of affinity before mentioned, are hereby confirmed and
made valid in law, to every intent and purpose, from the time of
the celebration of such marriages respectively; and all penalties,
forfeitures and consequences, which may have been incurred
under the said recited act, by any marriage within the degrees
of affinity aforesaid, are hereby released and discharged, and
the parties forever acquitted of the same; and no penalties shall
hereafter be incurred under the said act in consequence of any
marriage within the degrees of affinity herein before mentioned,
but every such marriage shall be good, sufficient and valid in
law, any thing in the said recited act to the contrary thereof in
any wise notwithstanding.
CHAPTER 27.
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A Supplement to the ACT, entitled, *An Act to establish Pilots and regulate
their fees.
Merged in 1803, ch. 63.
CHAPTER 33.
AN ACT for the better administration of Justice in the several counties of
this state.
Until this period, the county courts, underwent no change from their colo-
nial organization, by the Lord Proprietary. By this act the state was laid off
into judicial districts. A Chief Judge of 'sound legal knowledge,' was to
be appointed, for each district, and two persons of 'integrity, experience
and knowledge,' were to be appointed ; who should be residents of the
county for which they should be respectively commissioned, and who
should be styled 'Associate Justices,' of the county for which they should be
commissioned. The Chief Judge of the district, with the Associate Justices
of the county, were to compose the court of the county, for which the
Associates were commissioned. The Judges created by this law were to
hold their commissions 'during good behaviour, to be removed for misbeha-
viour, in the same manner as the Judges may be removed, under the consti-
tution and form of government.'
This law was repealed, by 1796, ch.43, except the fourth section thereof,
which provided for the organization of the court.
The act of 1796, ch. 43, provided for the like organization of the courts.
The act of 1796, ch. 43, was repealed by the act of 1801, ch. 74, and
re-enacted in totedem verbis, the act of 1796, ch. 43. The passage of the
law of 1801, was resisted with great feeling, as it was supposed by its oppo-
nents to be an attack on the independence of the Judiciary. Judges Stone,
Craik and Wittington, were not re-appointed under the law of 1801.
Messrs. Sprigg, Clagett and Polk, were called to succeed them. Judge
Wittington sued out from the general court of the eastern shore, a quo
warranto against Judge Polk, (who had been called to the bench in the
judicial district in which he had presided,) to the end that the constitution-
ality of the law of 1801, might be submitted to a judicial decision. The
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ch. 26.
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