STATE OF MARYLAND.

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ral court; and the said court of appeals hereby established shall
sit on the western and eastern shores for transacting and deter-
mining the business of the respective shores, at such times and
places as the future legislation of this state shall direct and ap-
point, and any three of the said judges of the court of appeals
shall form a quorum to hear and decide in all cases pending in
said court; and the judge who has given a decision in any case
iu the county court, shall withdraw from the bench upon the
deciding of the same case before the court of appeals. That
one person of integrity and sound judgment in the law be ap-
pointed chancellor. That this state shall be divided into six

Court of
appeals.

judicial districts, in manner and form following, to wit: Saint
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, So-
merset and Worcester counties, shall be the fourth district;
Frederick, Washington and Allegany counties, shall be the fifth
district; Baltimore and Harford counties, shall be the sixth dis-
trict; 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 commission during good behaviour, removable
for misbehaviour on conviction in a court of law, or shall be
removed by the governor, 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 seve-
ral counties of this state, all and every the powers, authorities
and jurisdictions, which the county courts of this state now
have, use and exercise, and which shall be hereafter prescribed
by law; and the said county courts established by this act shall
respectively hold their sessions in the several counties at such
times and places as the legislature shall direct and appoint, and
the salaries of the said judges shall not be diminished during
the period of their continuance in office.

Judicial
districts.

CHANGE OF VENUE.

1804, ch. 55. — SEC. 2. That in any suit or action at law
hereafter to be commenced or instituted in any county court of
this state, the judges thereof upon suggestion, in writing, by

On sugges-
tion of party
supported
by affidavit,