LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1814.

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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any justice of the peace,
having qualified as such, shall accept of any office under the
government of the United States, and shall still act as a justice
of the peace, he shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the
sum of forty dollars, to be recovered before a justice of the
peace in the name of the state, one-half to the informer and the
other half to be applied to the use of the county.

CHAPTER 94.

Penalty for
accepting
office under
the general
government
&c.

An additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act respecting the
Equity Jurisdiction of the County Courts.
See note to 1785, eh. 72, ante page 208.

•1791, ch.
78.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the several county courts of this state may exercise origi-
nal equity jurisdiction in all cases in which the court of chan-
cery has now power to act, in the same manner that they now
exercise equity jurisdiction by virtue of the act to which this is
a supplement.
By 1815, ch. 163, the several county courts are vested with all the pow-
ers, &c. which can be exercised by the chancellor, whether derived from
the common law, or in virtue of any statute or act of assembly.

Equity
jurisdiction
may be
exercised
by county
courts.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That each of the judges of the
several judicial districts of this state, during vacation, shall
have the same power to grant and enforce, within their respec-
tive judicial districts, writs of injunction, in the same manner,
and with the same limitation, as the chancellor of the state can
or may exercise.
By 1815, ch. 163, the several judges in vacation may grant injunctions
and direct any rule, order or interlocutory decree, to be entered.

Judges may
grant writs
of injunc-
tion.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of some
one of the associate judges of the several judicial districts of
this state, to attend at the court-house of the several counties in
their several judicial districts, at some day between the several
sessions of their court, who shall have power to make all neces-
sary orders touching any subject matter in the said respective
courts, upon the equity side, brought or depending therein ; and
it shall be the duty of the several clerks of the several counties
in this state, to attend the said judge on the said days, who
shall make due entry of all such matters and things as shall or
may be ordered as aforesaid by the said judge ; and the several
county courts in this state are hereby instructed, at their first
court next after the passage of this act, to appoint the several
days on which the said judge shall attend as aforesaid, which
said days shall be as nearly as may be equi-distant between
the terms of the several and respective county courts.
By 1815, ch. 163, the county courts in their discretion may appoint inter-
mediate terms, to which process shall be returnable.

Orders
relative to
subject
matter of
adjudication