STATE OF MARYLAND.

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respectively be in office at the time of the confirmation of this
act as clerks of the several county courts, as clerks of the court
of appeals, as clerk of Baltimore city court, and as registers of
wills, shall not be subject in any respect to the operation of
this act, until from and after the first day of February, in the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-five.

Present
officers
exempt till
1845.

CARROLL COUNTY.

[1835, ch. 256. — SEC. 1. Carroll county erected into a
county, and formed from portions of Baltimore and Frederick
counties.]
See post page 1815.

HOWARD DISTRICT.

1838, ch. 22. — SEC. 1. After the confirmation of this act,
there shall be established in Anne Arundel county, a district in-
cluded within the following boundaries, to wit : beginning for
the same at the intersection of the west shore of Deep run with
the southern shore of the Patapsco river, at or near Ellicott's
furnace, and running thence southerly with said Deep run,
until it reaches the Baltimore and Washington rail road ; and
thence with the said rail road and including the same until it
reaches the southwestern line of Anne Arundel county on the
Big Patuxent river, and thence with the said river, and the lines
of said county until it intersects the northwestern point of said
county ; and running thence with the lines of Carroll and Bal-

Lines of
Howard
district.

timore counties to the place of beginning as above mentioned,
and that the said district shall be called Howard district of
Anne Arundel county.

Howard
district.

SEC. 2. That to aid in administering justice and providing for
the peculiar wants and necessities in civil and police matters of
the people of said district, there shall from time to time as occa-
sion may require, be appointed or elected therein, as the case
may be, a register of wills, a sheriff and a clerk of the court to
be established therein, which said officers shall have the same
qualifications, hold their offices by the same tenure, and be ap-
pointed or elected therein in the same manner with similar
officers in the several counties of this state.

Sheriff-
clerk —
register of
wills.

SESSIONS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESTRICTED.

1838, ch, 411. — SEC. 1. All future sessions of the general
assembly of this state, shall close on the tenth day of March, in
each and every year, unless the same shall be closed at an
earlier day, by the agreement of the two houses.

Session to
close 10th
March.