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shall be closed and brought to a final ter
'mination, within five years from The time
of the meeting of the first General Assem-
bly, after the ratification Of this Constitution,
at which time, or sooner, if the said business
shall be finished, the said chancery court
and the office Of Chancellor as well as the
office of Register in Chancery shall remain
the same as they now are, and in the event
of vacancy in either the said office of
Chancellor or Register in Chancery, the
same shall be filled in the manner now pro-
vded for, and when the said chancery court
shall be abolished, the Legislature shall pro-
vide by law for the safe keeping and dispo-
sition Of the records and proceedings Of
said court as it may deem necessary and
proper.
9TH. The orphans courts and magistrates
courts of the Slate and the office Of COM
missioners of insoIvent debtors for the city
of Baltimore to be abolished, and their iu-
risdiction vested respectively in the several
courts heretofore mentioned.
Sth. The jurisdiction Of single justices Of
the peace to be extended to enc hundred
dollars with the right of immediate appeal
TO the several courts respectively hereinbe-
fore mentioned.
9th. The clerks of the Court of Appeals
for the Eastern and Western Shores, 10 be
ANNUALLY appointed by the judges of said
court, all other clerks of court, and the re-
eisers of wills for the counties and city Of
Baltimore, to be elected by the people of
said counties and city respectively for a
term not exceeding seven years, and TO be
re-eigible at their terms.
10Th. The fees of clerks and registers Of
wills to be abolished; and fixed salaries to
be provided by law for the registers Of wills,
to be paid by the counties and city of Balli-
more respectively; and the Legislature to
provide by law some certain AID simple
mode Of compensation to clerks, in lieu Of
the present system of fees.
1lth, Justices of the peace, sherffs. con-
stables and coroners Ia be appointed, as now
provided for, and their fees of office to re-
main the SAM.
18th. All judgments, DEGREES and orders
in chancery, lnlerlocutory orders and other
proceedings Of courts Of competent iurisdic-
ton in this State, and all public or private
acts of Assembly whenever relied upon
in the progress of cause IN any Of the
courts of the State, ID @ allowed to be Civ
en- in evidence, under the general issue, and
the courts to be prohibited from passing
rules Of cour. requiring them to be special
ly pleaded.
18Th. All special pleading to be abolish
ed in the courts of the State. and every mat
ter pertinent or material to the merits of a
cause to be given in evidence under the
general issue and without being plead spe-
cially.
l4lh. The trial of judges by impeach-
ment only, and the doctrine Of coniempts
Of court, TO be held as utterly odous, and
in derogalion of the ghls of the citizens
and, as establishing in the persons Of judges
preoga,lves, privileges and immuniies no,
belonging 10 other citizens of the State.
18th. Judges for wilful misbehaviour
and Other Official msdemeanors, to be tried
| like other citizens, on preseniment aud in
dictment in the due course Of the common
law, sub ject to such regulations and lini-
la;ions as the Legislature may prescribe by
| law.