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100.
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CHAPTER 109.
A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act respecting the Debts due to
this State, and the Debtors thereof, and for other purposes.
Merged in 1814, ch. 103. See notes to the original act, 1802, ch. 100,
ante page 469, and 1817, ch. 137.
NOVEMBER, 1804.— CHAPTER 55.
AN ACT to provide for the Trial of Facts in the several Counties of this
State, and to alter, change and abolish, all such parts of the Constitution
and Form of Government as relate to the General Court and Court of
Appeals.
Supplements and other acts are, 1805, ch. 16, 65, 86; 1806, ch. 41, 90;
1812, ch. 145; 1821, ch. 125; 1822, ch. 131; 1824, ch. 138; 1825, ch. 117;
1826, ch. 52, 240; 1827, ch. 44, 85; 1828, ch. 27, 165; 1829, ch. 166, 238;
1830, ch. 185, 186; 1831, ch. 15, 64, 203, 303, 313, 319; 1832, ch. 111,
197, 208, 230, 273, 292, 302, 306, 307; 1833, ch. 93, 224, 254, 274, 276 ;
1834, ch. 76, 83, 88, 89, 105, 126, 189, 190, 194, 244, 248, 296, 305, 309;
1835, ch. 200, 201, 235; 1836, ch. 150, 156, 269, 289, 293, 305; 1837, ch.
116,217.
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State divi-
ded into
districts —
judges to be
appointed.
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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That this state shall be divided into six judicial districts, in
manner and form following, to wit : St. Mary's, Charles and
Prince George's counties, shall be the first district; Cecil,
Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties, shall be the second
district ; Calvert, Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties, shall
be the third district ; Caroline, Dorchester, Somerset and Wor-
cester counties, shall be the fourth district ; Frederick, Wash-
ington and Allegany counties, shall be the fifth district ; Balti-
more and Harford counties, shall be the sixth district ; and there
shall be appointed, for each of the said judicial districts, three
persons of integrity and sound legal knowledge, residents of the
state of Maryland, who shall, previous to and during their acting
as judges, reside in the district for which they shall respectively
be appointed, one of whom shall be styled in the commission
Chief Judge, and the other two Associate Judges, of the district
for which they shall be appointed ; and the chief judge, together
with the two associate judges, shall compose the county courts
in each respective district ; and each judge shall hold his com-
mission during good behaviour, removable for misbehaviour on
conyictioa in a court of law, or shall be removed by the go-
vernor, upon the address of the general assembly, provided that
two-thirds of all the members of each house concur in such
address; and the county courts, so as aforesaid established,
shall have, hold and exercise, in the several counties of this
state, all and every the powers, authorities and jurisdictions,
which the county courts of this state now have, use and exer-
cise, and which shall be hereafter prescribed by law ; and the
said county courts established by this act shall respectively hold
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