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the Court of Appeals shall be holden for the Western Shore, at
the city of Annapolis on the first Mondays in the months of June
and December in each and every year; and that from and af-
ter the passage of this act, the Court of Appeals shall be holden
for the Eastern Shore, at the town of Easton on the last Mon-
days in the months of May and November in each and every
year; and that all process already issued or which may hereaf-
ter be issued, and all appeals, writs of error, and procedings
civil and criminal, returnable to and now depending and unde-
termined in the said Court of Appeals held for the Eastern
Shore, shall he returned and continued to the last Monday in
May next; Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, that it
shall not be necessary for the judges of the Court of Appeals or
any of them, except the judge of the said court resident of the
second judicial district, to attend the said court to be holden for
the Eastern Shore on the last Monday in November in each
and every year, and the judge of the said court resident in the
third judicial district to attend the said court to be holden for
the Western Shore on the first Monday in December in each
and every year; and it shall be the duty of the judges of the se-
cond and third judicial districts to attend respectively the said
court to be holden for the Western and Eastern Shores respec-
tively in the months of November and December in each and ev-
ery year; who shall respectively have power to make all neces-
sary rules and orders touching any suit, action, appeal, writ of
error, process, pleadings or proceedings returned to the said
court for the respective shores, or depending therein preparatory
to the hearing, trial or decision of such suit, action, appeal,
writ of error, process, pleadings or proceedings; and to call ex-
ecutiong or to enter them not called by consent. And at each and
every such November and December sessions of the said court, all
suits, actions, appeals, writs of error, pleas and other proceed-
ings civil or criminal, shall be continued over to the ensuing
May and June sessions respectively.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the judge of the
Court of Appeals required by this act to attend at Easton on the
last Monday in November in each and every year, or the judge
of the said court so required to attend at Annapolis on the
first Monday in December in each and every year, shall not
attend as aforesaid on the said respective days for the purposes
by this act directed, the clerk of the said court is hereby author-
ised and empowered to adjourn the said court from day to day
until the said clerk can notify one of the other judges of the
court of appeals, who shall attend within a convenient time, and
shall have power as aforesaid, to make all necessary rules and
orders touching any suit, action, appeal, writ of error, process,
pleadings or proceedings as aforesaid, preparatory to the hear-
ing, trial or decision of such suit, action, appeal, writ of error,
process, pleadings or proceedings as aforesaid, and to call exe-
cutions, or enter them not called by consent; and the clerk of
the said court is hereby empowered to adjourn the said court from
day to day until the said judge so notified shall attend for the
purposes by this act required.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an act entitled, an act
to alter the times of the meeting of the court of appeals, and for
to her purposes, passed at November session eighteen hundred
and eleven, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Proviso.
Judges not
meeting--may
adjourn.
Repeal.
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