WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

pects within Howard district, similar to those of such of-
ficers or authorities in Anne Arundel county, and their
qualifications and compensation shall be in all respects
similar, and that all officers of the district aforesaid, shall
have, receive and take to their own use all lawful fees and
perquisites, as are allowed to the officers of Anne Arundel

county for the like services, and such officers as are not

remunerated for their services by fees and perquisites, shall
shall be paid the same amount that is paid to such officers

CHAP. 98.

Qualifications

fees, &c.

in Anne Arundel county, and in the same manner; and all
the officers of said district shall be subject to the same
pains, disabilities and forfeitures, and those only which
such other officers are subject to under the constitution
and laws of this State; and 'that the clerk of the court of
Howard district of Anne Arundel county, shall be consi-
dered as a clerk of a county court, and perform the same
services and duties within the said district, as the clerk of
Anne Arundel county court has heretofore discharged in
reference to the whole county of Anne Arundel, or the in-
habitants thereof.

Forfeitures, &c.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That no inhabitant of the
district aforesaid shall be arrested on any capias ad res-
pondendum or satisfaciendum, out of the limits of said
district, except in those cases where it is lawful to arrest
an inhabitant out of his own proper county.

No person to be

arrested out of
Howard Dist.

Exception.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That all proceedings,
writs, process and pleas at law or in equity, civil and crimi-
nal, depending in Anne Arundel county court at the time

until the final determination and execution thereof in due
course of law, and for that purpose the officers of Anne
Arundel county shall have as full powers and authority in
Howard district, as if this act and the act of eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight, chapter twenty-two, had not been

Writs, &c. de-
pending in A.
A. co. court to
remain there.

passed; but that after the passage of this act, the court of
Howard district of Anne Arundel county, the orphans
court and the other authorities of Howard district, shall
have in such cases a jurisdiction as exclusive as the au-
thorities of any county of this State would have within
said county, except as herein provided for.

To have juris-

diction.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That the commission-
ers of said district be and they are hereby authorised and
directed, upon the selection of a place for the seat of jus-
tice, to select sites for the erection thereon of a court
house, clerk's office, register of wills office, jail and
poor's house at or near said place; and on the part of said

Sites to be se-
lected for pub-
lic buildings.