| 1816.
CHAP. 193. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
court shall not be considered in session for the administration of
justice unless the chief judge or both the associate judges are present
in court sitting. |
Jurymen to be
summoned. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriff of
the said county, for
the time being, shall summon forty-eight good and lawful men, residing
within the said city or precincts, ten days before the day
appointed for holding the said court, as grand and petit jurors,
and shall return a pannel of them accordingly; and every such juror,
being regularly summoned, not attending, shall be fined by
the said court a sum not exceeding fifty dollars; and every grand
and petit juror shall be allowed the sum of one dollar for every days
attendance. |
Commitments and
recognizances to
be returned to city
court. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all commitments
and recognizances
for all felonies, crimes, offences and misdemeanors, committed
within the said city and precincts, shall be returned from time to
time by any justice of the peace, taking such recognizance, before
the judges aforesaid; and any justice, taking such recognizance,
shall lodge the same with the clerk of the said court on the day
next preceding the day appointed for holding the said court. |
Witnesses to be
fined for their attendance
—their
allowance. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any person summoned
as a witness
to attend the said court, and making default, shall be fined by
the judges aforesaid in their discretion and exceeding one hundred
and fifty dollars, and every witness attending the said court shall
be allowed the sum of one dollar (a) for every days attendance.
(a) By 1818, ch. 141, witnesses
to be allowed fifty cents per day unless they reside
at a distance, &c. |
Court to appoint
constables. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges
shall have power
to appoint any number of constables they may think necessary for
the execution of this act, and to facilitate the administration of public
justice, and the same constables to remove, and appoint others
in their stead (b); and the said constables shall be allowed such
compensation as the said judges may think just and right.
(b) By 1817, ch. 120, they have
exclusive right, except, &c. of appointing
constables, and removing them. Constables to take an oath and give
bond, &c. |
Judges to call
court, and direct
venire to issue. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said chief
judge, or the two
associate judges, shall have power to call a court at any time they
may consider it necessary, and to direct the clerk of the said court
to issue a venire for the attendance of a grand and petit jury
at
such extraordinary court. |
—To grant ordinary
or retailers'
licences. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases of
applications in the
said court for ordinary or retailers licences, it shall be in their discretion
to grant or refuse the same. |
Penalty for selling
without license. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That instead of the
penalty heretofore
imposed on persons selling liquor without license within the
said city and precincts of Baltimore, such person or persons shall
forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-four dollars current money for
each offence, one half thereof to the support of government, and
the other half to the informer. |
Chief justice to
attend every day. |
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the chief
judge of the said court to attend every day, except on Sundays
and during the session of the said court, at the office of the clerk
of the said court, or at some other inconvenient room in the court-house,
to hear and examine all persons who may be brought before
him, and to commit for trial, or otherwise, as the case may require; |
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