| 1816.
CHAP. 193.
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CXCIII.
An Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in Cases of
Crimes and Misdemeanors in the City and Precincts of
Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 338.
A Supplement, 1817, ch. 195. See
1793, ch. 57; 1799, ch. 58; 1800, ch. 31;
1802, ch. 69; 1804, ch. 65; 1808, ch. 113; November 1809, ch. 125, ch.
138, ch.
144; 1811, ch. 2, ch. 206; 1814, ch. 118; 1816, ch. 45, ch. 227; 1817,
ch. 72,
ch. 190, and 1818, ch. 169. |
Judges to be appointed
for city
court, which is to
be vested with all
the powers of
court of oyer and
terminer. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of March next, the trial and cognizance
of all felonies, and other crimes, offences and misdemeanors,
and other matters arising within the city and precincts of Baltimore,
which are at this time cognizable by the Court of Oyer and
Terminer and Gaol Delivery for Baltimore County, shall be inquired
into, heard, tried and determined, within the said city and
precincts, as follows; that is to say, the governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the council, shall issue a commission to three
persons of integrity, experience, and sound legal knowledge, residing
within the city or precincts of Baltimore, one of whom shall be
styled in the said commission Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court,
and the other two shall be styled in the said commission, Associate
Judges of the said court; and the said Chief Judge and Associate
Judges shall hold their commissions during good behaviour, removable
according to the constitution of this state, and not otherwise;
and from and after the issuing said commission, all the powers,
jurisdiction and authority, vested in, and now held and exercised
by, the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for Baltimore
County, or the justices thereof, within the said city and precincts,
shall be and are hereby vested in, and may be rightfully exercised
by, Baltimore City Court, or the judges thereof. |
To decide all
claims now pending
in court of
oyer and terminer. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commencement
of this act
all causes, pleas, process and proceedings, depending in the Court
of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for Baltimore County,
shall be heard, tried and determined, before the justices appointed
and commissioned in virtue of this act; and that all process which
hath been issued or shall issue from the Court of Oyer and Terminer
and Gaol Delivery for Baltimore County, returnable to the
next term of the said court, and all recognizances which have
been, or shall be taken, returnable to the next term of the said
court, shall be returned to the first term of the court to be holden
under this law. |
| To appoint a clerk. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the judges of Baltimore
City
Court, shall appoint a fit and proper person, as clerk to the said
court, who shall receive into his custody all the records, books and
proceedings, now remaining in the office of the clerk of the Court
of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for Baltimore County,
and who shall be entitled to receive the same fees as are now allowed
by law to the clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and
Gaol Delivery for Baltimore County. |
Present clerk to
be in office until a
new appointment. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of the
Court of Oyer
and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for Baltimore County, shall be
clerk of the said Baltimore City Court, until the appointment of a
clerk, as herein before directed, shall have been made by the judges
of the said last mentioned court. |
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