74 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

sary for the despatch of business, on the Tuesday of every week
in the year other than the weeks of the regular terms.

133. The said court shall sit for the transaction of business
from nine o'clock, A. M.) till three o'clock, p. M., and the sessions
shall not at any time exceed one day, except at the regular times
of holding of the Circuit Court for said county, when the said
Orphans' Court may sit during the whole term of said Circuit
Court, if necessary for the despatch of business, and except also
when it shall appear to them to be necessary for the purpose of
examining witnesses or hearing an argument in a cause depend-
ing before them.

134. The judges of the Orphans' Court of Anne Arnndel
county shall be exempt from serving as jurors in any of the
courts of said county, and it shall not be lawful for the sheriff to
summon them as such.

EETAILEKS.

135. Any inhabitant of this State may go before the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel cou-nty, or if such court be not in ses-
sion, the judge thereof, and make oath that he verily suspects or
believes that any person having a license to sell or trade in said
county deals, unlawfully with negroes, or is in the habit of re-
ceiving stolen goods.

136. "Upon the receipt of such oath by the court or judge, the
said court or judge shall issue a summons, returnable upon a cer-
tain day, to the party so charged, directing him to appear and
answer the charge contained in the affidavit.

137. Upon the return day of said summons, if the party shall
be returned summoned or the summons shall have been left for
ten days at his place of abode, the court or judge shall examine
the case, and if the court or judge shall be satisfied that the
party charged is generally reputed to deal with negroes contrary
to law, or to receive stolen goods, or if the court or judge shall
have good reason to believe that such person deals or receives
goods in manner aforesaid, the court or judge shall take away
the license of such person.

138. The clerk of the Circuit Court for said county shall in all
cases, before granting a license to any trader or retailer, examine
the person applying for the same, on oath, whether the said