THE CHANCELLOR'S CASE. 679

It is because of the continual calls to which a chancellor must
always hold himself accessible, and because of the nature, and the
peculiarly heavy pressure of the duties imposed upon such an officer,
that the salary of the chancellor of England, and of every State in
this Union, has always been double, or at. least one-third more than
that of any other judicial officer. And it is for the same reasons, that
the salary of the chancellor of Maryland, from the first settlement of
the country, up to this time, has always been in a similar proportion
higher than that of any other judicial officer of the State.(a)

(a) The following table presents at one view the annual amount of all judicial
salaries in Maryland, from the year 1773, to the year 1825 inclusive, translating
those formerly given in the money of account of the State into dollars and cents.

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The facts exhibited by this table suggest many matters for reflection; some of
which it may be well here to notice. There was nothing in the frame of the pro-
vincial government which made it incompatible for one judicial officer to hold at the
same time any other similar office, or indeed almost any other kind of office; or