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CHAP. 146. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
reward for prosecuting or defending any civil suit or action, to
which the state may be a party or interested therein, as they may
think right. |
To hold commissions
during good
behaviour. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the attorney general,
and each
and every district attorney appointed and commissioned in virtue of
this act, shall hold his commission during good behaviour, but
may be removed by the governor upon the address of the general
assembly of Maryland. |
No substitute to be
received without
consent of court. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein
contained shall be
construed to authorise or empower the attorney general (a),
or any
district attorney, to substitute any person to perform the duties enjoined
on him by this act, without the approbation of the court in
which such substitution shall be made, and such substitution shall
continue only during the term at which it was made, nor the district
attorney to be commissioned for the judicial district within
which Baltimore city court is held, to have, use, exercise or perform,
any power or authority as district attorney in Baltimore city
court.
(a) See 1818, ch. 139. |
Attorney general
may be appointed
attorney for the city of
Baltimore. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein
contained shall be
construed to preclude the attorney general from being also appointed
and commissioned a district attorney, or attorney for the city of
Baltimore; and in case the attorney general is or shall be appointed
a district attorney, or attorney for the city of Baltimore, he shall
be styled Attorney General of Maryland, and District Attorney
of the district of which he shall appointed district attorney, or of
the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, and shall hold, use and
exercise, both appointments, any thing herein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
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Passed Feb. 10, 1818. |
CHAP. CXLVII.
An Act to repeal the several Acts of Assembly for the destruction
of
Crows in Somerset, Anne-Arundel, and Calvert
Counties. Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol. 62. |
| Repeal. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the several acts of assembly (b) authorising
the levy courts of Somerset,
Anne-Arundel (c), and Calvert counties, to levy
on the respective
counties monies under the acts for the destruction of crows
in Somerset and Calvert counties, be and the same are hereby repealed.
(b) 1803, ch. 96, and 1807,
ch. 71.
(c) By 1818, ch. 21, the act
of 1807, ch. 71, is repealed so far as it relates to
Anne Arundel county. |
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Passed Feb. 9, 1818. |
CHAP. CXLVIII.
An Act relating to the City of Baltimore. Lib. TH. No.
6, fol. 63.
See 1816, ch. 209, and ch. 218. |
City shall be divided
into wards. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the thirtieth day of September next, the city of Baltimore
shall be divided into twelve wards, as nearly equal in population
as may be, and the boundaries of which shall be as nearly
as practicable in right lines; and when the number of its inhabitants
shall have increased to ninety thousand, the said city shall be divided
into fourteen wards; and when it shall have increased to one
hundred and twenty thousand, the said city shall be divided into |
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