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COUNTY COURTS
 

            INDEX TO THE LAWS.
 

    County courts may adjudge negroes and mulattoes
bound for a limited time, who run away, to serve a reasonable
time after,
    Temporary powers as to process vested in the
clerks,
—The clerks authorised to discharge their duties as
if no alteration of the constitution had taken place,
—Provision as to recording deeds,
    The judges to take the oath or affirmation therein
prescribed,
—To be taken before any judge or justice, and certified
by him, and recorded in any court of which the
judge qualified is a member,
    The form of commissions to the judges prescribed,
    The county courts in each judicial district to be
composed of all the judges for such district,
—Any one or more empowered to hold the court,
&c.
    Appeals and writs of error to be returnable to the
court of appeals for the respective shores,

    No judge, after qualifying, to act as an attorney or
solicitor during the time that he shall act as judge,
    Each of the judges to exercise, out of court, all the
powers, &c. that might have been done by any judge of
the late general court, court of appeals, or chief justice
of a district court,
    When the chancellor is interested, in cases where
bills may properly lie, the chief judge of the district,
in which the chancery court shall sit, to decide thereon,
—An appeal to lie to the court of appeals,
—Where the chancellor for the time being may
have been counsel, or have given his opinion, so
that he cannot conscientiously act thereon, and shall
so certify, the suit to be determined by the chief judge
of the third judicial district, or the court, at the election
of either party,
—The chief judge directed to express in writing his
opinion, when required by the chancellor, on any
question of law arising in any suit in chancery that
may be thought necessary according to the practice,
—In case of such opinion being given, or of any
decree or order made by him, or the court, (he being
sitting therein,) the chief judge to retire from the bench
on the decision by the court of appeals,
    Records, entries and transcripts, which the clerks
were to transmit to the general court, to be transmitted
by them to the court of appeals,
    The county courts to sit at the former places at the
times therein mentioned, viz.
—In Saint Mary's county on the first Monday in
March and August,
—In Charles county on the first Monday in March
and August,
—In Prince George's county on the first Monday
in April and September,
—In Cæcil county on the first Monday in April and
September,
—In Kent county on the third Monday in March
and September,
—In Queen-Anne's county on the first Monday in
May, and the third Monday in October,
—In Talbot county on the third Monday in May
and second Monday in November,
—In Calvert county on the second Monday in May
and October,
—In Anne-Arundel county on the third Monday in
April and September,

Session.  Ch. S.
 
 

 1804        90

  1805        10    1

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  1806        55
  1811      189
 
 
 

  1806        55
 

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  1807        14
  1805        65  21
  1816      151    2

  1805        5  21

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