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years of age at the time of his election and disqualified after
he shall have attained the age of seventy years.
5th. That the salary of each of said Judges shall not be
less than the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars.
6th. In the event of their death, disqualification, or removal
from office, or from the State, the remainder of their term so
vacated, shall be filled by an appointment by a joint vote of
the General Assembly of Maryland, if in session, and in case
of their failure so to do, or their not being in session, the ap-
pointment shall then devolve upon the Executive, who shall
fill the same for the unexpired period of their election, sub-
ject to a ratification by the Senate.
CIRCUIT COURTS.
Ordered, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instruc-
ted to inquire into the expediency of creating certain Judicial
Districts within which Circuit Courts and Courts of Equity,
Probate and Administration shall be held, the respective sys-
tems to be defined by the following principles:
1st. That the Circuit Court shall embrace the same civil
and criminal business over which the present Circuit Courts
hare jurisdiction.
2d. That the Courts of Equity, Probate and Administra-
tion shall include within the sphere of their duties, all the
Equity business now transacted in the Circuit Courts, connec-
ted with the sale, division or other disposition of real estate,
injunctions, petitions and commissions. The Judges of each
of said Courts shall also act in all such matters as are now
within the province of the Orphans' Courts of the State where
parties litigant may desire a determination and decision by
him as sole presiding Judge in all which cases the Register
shall keep a docket, and the decision of said Judge shall be
made in writing, and filed among the records of said Court,
from which an appeal may be taken within sixty days, to the
Court of Appeals.
3d. That there shall be one Judge of the Circuit Court and
one Judge of the Court of Equity, Probate and Administra-
tion, elected in each Judicial District as hereinafter designated,
and that each of said Judges, shall be men of integrity, learn-
ed in the law, and not less than thirty years of age at the
time of their election.
4th. That each of said Judicial Districts shall be composed
of three counties except the 4th, 5th and 6th Districts, which
shall be composed of two counties and there shall be two
Judges for each of said Judicial Districts to be selected from
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