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tiled to a trial by jury where the amount in con-
froversy shall be above ten dollars.
Sec. %. Sherifs shall be elected in each coun-
ty and in the city of Baltimore, every third year,
that is to say two persons for the office of Sheriff
Tor each county, and two for the said city, the one
OF whom having tie highest number of votes of the
qualified voters Of said county city, or if both
have an equal number, either of them, at the dis
erection of the Governor. to be commissioned by
the Governor for the said office, and having served
for three years. such person shall be Ineligible for
the four years next succeeding; bond with securi-
ty to be taken every year as usual, and no Sheriff
shall be qualified to act before the same be given.
In case of death, refusal, disqualification or re-
moval out of the county, before the expiration of
the three years. the other person chosen as afore-
said shall be commissioned by the Governor to
execute the said office for the residue of the said
three years, the said person giving bond with Sc
curity as aforesaid. No person shall be eligible to
the office of Sheriff, but resident of such county
or city respectively, and who shall have been a
citizen of this State at least five years preceding
his election and above the age of twenty one years.
The two candidates properly qualified having the
highest number of legal ballots, shall be declared
duly elected for the office of Sheriff for such coun
ty or city, and returned to the Governor with a
certificate of the number Of ballots for each Of
them.
Sec. %. Constables, Coroners and EIisors shall
be appointed for each county and the city of Bal
more, in the manner now prescribed by law, or in
such other manner as the General Assembly may
hereafter direct
Sec. "a. No Judge shall sit in any case where
in he may be interested, or where either of the
parties may be connected with him by affinity or
consanguinity within such degrees as may be pre-
scrbed by law, or where he shall have been of
council in the cause, and whenever any of the
Judges of the County Courts of the Courts of
Baltimore City, shall be thus disqualified, or when
ever by reason OF sickness any other cause, the
parties may, by consent appoint proper person
to try the said cause, the Judges shall exchange
districts, and hold Courts for each other, when they
may deem it eXpedent, and shall do SO when di-
rected by law.
Sec. 25. No new original bill shall be flied or
received in the High Court of Chancery of this
State, from and after the ratification Of this Con-
sttution by the people Of this State, shall any
cause be removed from any court in the State to
the said Court of Chancery from and after the said
ratification but all causes and proceedings now
pending which may be pending in the said Court
of Chancery at the time of the said ratification,
shall be heard, determined and proceeded with,
by the present Chancellor his successor in office,
until they shall be brought to final close, provided
the same be done in five years from the time of
said ratification, and at the end and expiration of
said five years, from the time of the said ratlfica
tion or sooner if the said business in Chancery be
sooner disposed of, the office of Chancellor of this
State, and the office of Register in Chancery shall
be and they are hereby abolished. The present
Chancellor and Register in Chancery, and in the
event of any vacancy in their respective offices,
their successors in office respectively to be appoint
ed at present by the Governor and Senate, shall
during said five years or other shorter period
ceiye the same salary and compensation which
they now receive. The Legislature shall provide
by law, for the recording, safe-keepng other
disposition of the records, DEGREES and other pro-
ceeding of the said Court of Chancery, at the end
and expiration of said five years or other shorter
period, and for the transmission to the several
counties Of the State and city of Baltimore, of all
such causes and proceedings in said court as may
be then undisposed Of and unfinished, in such man
ner, and under such regulations may be deem
ed necessary and proper.
Sec. 26. The present Judges of the County
Courts, of the Orphans Courts. of Baltimore City
Court and of the Magistrates Courts, and of the
Commissioners of InsoIvent Debtors for the city of
Baltimore, and Justices of the Peace shall remain
in Office until the election and qualification of the
Judges, and Justices of the Peace whose election
is provided for by this Constitution and no longer
Sec. 81. The first election of Judges, Clerks
Registers and Justices of the Peace and all other
officers whose election by the people is provided
for in this article of the Constitution shall take
place throughout the State the first Wednesday
of October next, after the ratification of this Con-
stitution by the people.
Sec. %. Whenever lands lie partly in one coun-
ty, and partly in another, whenever persons
proper to be made defendants to proceedings in
Chancery, reside, some in and some III an
other, that court shall have jurisdiction in which
proceedings shall have been first commenced, sub
ject to such rules regulations and alterations as
may be prescribed by law.
Sec. 90 In all suits or actions at law and in all
presentments and indictments, hereafter to be
menced or instituted in any of the courts CT law Of
this State, having jurisdiction thereof, the Judge
OF Judges thereof, upon suggestion in writing if
made by the Attorney General, or the prosecutor
for the State, or upon suggestion in writing sup
ported by affidavit, if made by any other of the
parties thereto, that fair and impartial trial can
not be had in the court where such suit or action
at law, presentment and Indictment is depend
ing, shall and may order and direct the record of
proceedings in such suit or action, presentment or
Indictment, to be transmitted to the Judge of anv
adjoining county for trial, who shall hear and de-
termine the in like manner as if such suit or
action, presentment Indictment, had been orr
ginally instituted therein provided nevertheless,
that such suggestion shall be made aforesaid,
before during the term in which the issue or is
sues may be joined, in said suit action present
ment Indictment. And provided also, that such
further remedy in the premises may be provided
by law as the Legislature shall from time to time
direct and enact.
Sec. 80. All elections of Judges and other Off
provided for under this article of the Co,st-
tuition shall be certified, and the returns made by
the Clerks of the respective counties to the Gov
ernor, who shall issue commissions to the different
persons for the Offices to which they shall have
been respectively elected.
MARYLAND REFORM CONVENTION.
ANN.poIIS Feb