LEVIN WINDER, Esq. GOVERNOR.

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lected shall be paid to the said Thomas Murphy or his

order.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of
Anne Arundel county, be and they are hereby authorised
and directed to levy annually on the assessable property

of said county so long as they shall see fit, and cause to be
collected, a sum of money not exceeding thirty dollars,
for the support and maintainence of Rachel Evans, of
said county, to be paid to her order.

DEC. SESS.

1814.

Sum may be

levied for her

maintenance.

CHAPTER 94.

An additional supplement to the act entitled, an act re-
specting the equity jurisdiction of the county courts.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the several county courts of this
state may exercise original equity jurisdiction in all ca-
ses in which the court of chancery has now power to

act, in the same manner that they now exercise equity

jurisdiction by virtue of the act to which this is a sup-
plement.

Passed Jan.

8, 1815.
Equity juris-
diction may
be exercised
by county
courts.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the
judges of the several judicial districts of this state, du-
ring vacation, shall have the same power to grant and
enforce, within their respective judicial districts, writs
of injunction, in the same manner, and with the same
limitation, as the chancellor of the state can or may ex-

ercise.

Judges may
grant writ of
injunction.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of some one of the associate judges or the several
judicial districts of this state, to attend at the court
house of the several counties in their several judicial dis-
tricts, at some day between the several sessions of their
court, who shall have power to make all necessary or-
ders 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 on
which the said judge shall attend as aforesaid, which
said days shall be as nearly as may be equi-distant be-
tween the terms of the several and respective county

courts.

Orders rela-
tive to object
matter of ad-
judication.

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 adminis-
tered by the, court, well and faithfully to execute the

Auditor—shall
take an oath —
his fees.