| DEC. 1814.
CHAP. 94.
Orders relative to
subject matter of
adjudication. |
APPENDIX——CHANCERY LAWS.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of some one
of the associate judges of the several judicial districts of this state,
to attend at the court-house of the several counties in their several
judicial districts, at some day between the several sessions of their
court, who shall have power to make all necessary orders touching
any subject matter in the said respective courts, upon the equity
side, brought or depending therein; and it shall be the duty of the
several clerks of the several counties in this state, to attend the
said judge on the said days, who shall make due entry of all such
matters and things as shall or may be ordered as aforesaid by the
said judge; and the several county courts in this state are hereby
instructed, at their first court next after the passage of this act,
to appoint the several days shall be as nearly as may be equi-distant
between the terms of the several and respective county courts.
By 1815, ch. 163, the county courts in
their discretion may appoint intermediate
terms, to which process shall be returnable. |
County courts to
appoint auditors. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the several county
courts of this
state shall have full power and authority to appoint, during their
pleasure, a person of integrity, judgment, and skill in accounts, to
be auditor for the said court, who shall, before he enters upon the
duties of his appointment, take an oath to be administered by the
court, well and faithfully to execute the duties of his office, without
affection, favour, partiality or prejudice; and he shall audit all
accounts in the same manner, and with the same powers, and subject
to the same control, as the auditor in chancery now does; and
the auditor so to be appointed shall be allowed three dollars per day
for every day he shall be reasonably employed in stating, auditing
and settling any account, to be paid by the party desiring such account
to be stated, audited and settled, and taxed in the bill of
costs as aforesaid. |
Persons thinking
themselves aggrieved
at liberty
to appeal from decree
of county
court. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every person
or persons
who shall or may think themselves aggrieved by the decree of any
county court, in any case of which such county court may have an
equity jurisdiction by virtue of this act, or of the original act to
which this is a supplement, shall be at liberty in all cases to appeal
to the court of appeals of the respective shore, in the same
manner, and under the same circumstances, and such appeals shall
have the same legal effect and consequences as appeals prosecuted
from the court of chancery to the court of appeals now have. |
Clerks may act as
register—process,
by whom to be returned. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerks of the
several county
courts in this state shall act as registers for their several counties,
in the same manner, and with the same powers, as the register in
chancery now does; and the sheriffs or coroners of the several counties
shall execute and return all process, which may issue from any
court or judge by virtue of this act, in the like manner as they
would have been compelled in case the same had issued from the
court of chancery. |
Judges not to interfere
in any
cause now pending
in chancery,
&c. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein
contained shall be
construed to authorise and empower any interference by the several
county courts, or by the judges thereof, in any cause or process
now depending, or hereafter to be brought, or hereafter to be issued,
before or by the chancellor of Maryland, or to change the manner
of issuing writs of error. |
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