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nated by the Governor with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate. Justices served a ten-year term,
which was renewable, and were eligible to serve
until age seventy (Const. 1851, Art. 4, sec. 4).
The 1864 Constitution increased both the num-
ber of judicial districts and the number of justices
from four to five (Const. 1864, Art. 4, sec. 17).
Justices served fifteen-year terms. By the Consti-
tution of 1867 the number of judicial districts
and justices each were increased from five to
eight (Const. 1867, Art. 4, sec. 14).
In 1944 a reorganization of the Court reduced
the number of justices to five (Chapter 772, Acts
of 1943). One judge was elected from each of
three appellate circuits, and two were elected
from the fourth appellate circuit (Baltimore City).
Chapter 11, Acts of 1960, increased Court
membership to seven justices.

1778-1806 Benjamin Rumsey ...... Baltimore
1778-1806 Benjamin Mackall IV Calvert
1778-1806 Thomas Jones ......... Baltimore
1778-1792 Solomon Wright .... Queen Anne's
1778-1784 James Murray ....... Dorchester
1801-1806 Richard Potts ......... Frederick
1801-1806 Littleton Dennis ....... Somerset
1806-1824 Jeremiah Townley
Chase ........... Anne Arundel
1806-1809 James Tilghman .... Queen Anne's
1806-1812 William Polk ......... Somerset
1806 Richard Sprigg .... Prince George's
1806-1817 Joseph Hopper
Nicholson ........... Baltimore
1806-1811 John Mackall Gantt . Prince George's
1806-1844 John Buchanan ...... Washington
1809-1834 Richard Tilghman
Earle ............ Queen Anne's
1811-1821 John Johnson .... .Prince George's
1812-1814 John Done .......... .Worcester
1814-1835 William Bond Martin . . Dorchester
1817-1823 Walter Dorsey ........ Baltimore
1822-1844 John Stephen Prince George's
1823-1848 Stevenson Archer ....... Harford
1824-1851 Thomas Beale
Dorsey .......... Anne Arundel
1834-1851 Ezekial Fonnan Chambers . . . Kent
1835-1851 Ara Spence ......... .Worcester
1844-1845 William B. Stone ........ Charles
1844-1845 Samuel M. Semmes ..... .Allegany
1844-1851 Alexander Contee
Magruder ....... Prince George's
1845-1851 Robert N. Martin ...... Frederick
1848-1851 William Frick ......... Baltimore
1851-1861 John Carroll
LeGrand ........ .Baltimore City
1851-1860 John Bowers Eccleston ..... Kent
1851-1861 William Hallam
Tuck ............ Anne Arundel
1851-1857 John Thomson Mason . Washington

Principal Officers of Maryland

1857-1883 James Lawrence
Bartol .......... Baltimore City
1860-1867 Brice John Goldsborough Dorchester
1861-1866 Silas Morris Cochran Baltimore City
1861-1867 Richard Johns Bowie . Montgomery
1864-1867 Daniel Weisel ....... Washington
1867 Peter Wood Crain ....... Charles
1867-1879 James Augustus Stewart . Dorchester
1867-1893 Richard Henry Alvey . . Washington
1867-1882 Richard Grason ....... .Baltimore
1867-1896 John Mitchell Robinson . . . .Queen
Anne's
1867-1892 Oliver Miller ...... Anne Arundel
1867-1870 Madison Nelson ...... .Frederick
1867-1881 George Brent .......... Charles
1870-1871 William Pinkney Maulsby .Frederick
1871-1881 Richard Johns Bowie . Montgomery
1879-1892 Levin Thomas Handy
Irving ............... Somerset
1881-1887 John Ritchie ......... .Frederick
1881 Daniel Randall Magruder . . Calvert
1881-1890 Frederick Stone ......... Charles
1882-1889 George Yellott ....... .Baltimore
1883-1898 William Shepard Bryan . . .Baltimore
City
1887-1907 James McSherry ...... .Frederick
1889-1905 David Fowler ........ .Baltimore
1890-1923 John Parran Briscoe ...... Calvert
1892-1908 Henry Page ........... Somerset
1892-1899 Charles Boyle Roberts .... Carroll
1893-1924 Andrew Hunter Boyd .... Allegany
1896-1897 George Mitchell Russum . Caroline
1897-1912 James Alfred Pearce ....... .Kent
1898-1911 Samuel D.
Schmucker ....... Baltimore City
1899 James A. C. Bond ....... Carroll
1899-1907 Isaac Thomas Jones ..... .Howard
1905-1920 Nicholas Charles Burke . .Baltimore
1907 John G. Rogers ........ .Howard
1908-1909 W. Laird Henry ...... .Dorchester
1907-1924 William H. Thomas ...... Carroll
1908-1909 Glenn H. Worthington . . .Frederick
1909-1934 John R. Pattison ..... .Dorchester
1909-1938 Hammond Umer ...... .Frederick
1911-1924 Henry Stockbridge . . Baltimore City
1912-1919 Albert Constable ......... .Cecil
1919-1934 William H. Adkins ....... .Talbot
1920-1942 T. Scott Offutt ....... .Baltimore
1923-1934 W. Mitchell Digges ...... Charles
1924-1943 Carroll T. Bond .... Baltimore City
1924-1941 Francis Neal Parke ...... Carroll
1924-1926 William C. Walsh ...... Allegany
1926-1944 D. Lindley Sloan ....... Allegany
1934-1943 Benjamin A. Johnson . . . Wicomico
1934-1940 Wm. Mason Shehan ...... .Talbot
1934-1941 Walter J. Mitchell ....... Charles
1938-1956 Edward S. Delaplaine . . . .Frederick
1940-1957 Stephen R. Collins ........ .Kent
1941-1942 Wm. H. Forsythe ....... .Howard