ART. 56. ] COURTS.

shall be substituted for and become the records of said court, in lieu
of the worn-out records; and the mayor and city council of the city
of Baltimore, and the county commissioners of the several counties
respectively, shall levy such sum of money as they shall deem a fair
compensation for the labor of the clerk in making such new records.

CIRCUIT COURTS FOE THE COUNTIES.

523

7. The Circuit Courts for the several counties are the highest
common-law courts of record and original jurisdiction within this
State, and each has full common law powers and jurisdiction in all
civil and criminal cases within its county (except where by law the
jurisdiction has been taken away or conferred upon another tribu-
nal), and all the additional powers and jurisdiction given by the
Constitution and by law

Art 29, s 44
177S, c 1, 1785,
c 87, 1804, c. 55,
18115, c 65
Jurisdiction
26 Md 534, 29
Md 465, 31 Md
2, 37 Md 125,
39 Md 160, 40
Md 380

8. Each of the circuit judges of the counties, or judicial circuits,
as laid off, constituted and designated by the Constitution, may

1868, c. 52
Powers of
circuit judges.

make orders at common law at any place in their circuit to take effect
in any part of their circuit, and may require in writing the original
papers in any case, or abstracts and transcripts to be produced
before them, or either of them, wherever they or either of them

May require
production of
original papers.

may be in their circuits; and in all criminal cases tried in the term
time of said courts, in which the accused has been allowed to give
bail by the court, but the session whereof adjourned or concluded
before the accused procured bail, it shall be the duty of the aforesaid
court or courts to pass an order prior to adjournment, directing the
clerk of the said Circuit Court, in the absence of all of the judges
from the court, in which the case may have arisen, to take the bail
previously fixed by the said court, upon condition that the party

Bail in criminal
cases.

offering to become security shall swear or affirm, as the case may
be, that he is worth the amount of the bail in real or personal es-
tate, and further, the clerk must be satisfied of the verity of said
affidavit or affirmation.

CONCURRENT JURISDICTION WITH JUSTICES.

Oath of security.

0. In all cases where the amount claimed, or the thing in action,
exceeds the sum or value of fifty dollars, and justices of the peace
have jurisdiction, the several Circuit Courts for the counties shall
have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace.

SPECIAL JUDGES.

Art 51, s 16
1862, c 239, 8 4.
Concurrent
jurisdiction.
41 Md 196, 200,
43 Md. 64

10. If the judge of any Circuit Court, or any court in Baltimore
city, is connected with a party in controversy by consanguinity or
affinity within the fourth degree, counting down from the common
ancestor to the more remote, he shall be disqualified from sitting in
such cause; nor shall he sit in any cause wherein he may be inter-
ested, or in which he shall have been of counsel, nor in any case
where, in his opinion, it would be improper for him to sit, by reason

1865, c 66.
In what causes
judges disquali-
fied from
sitting.
9 Md 324, 22
Md 447, 25 Md
. 173.

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