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Fifth Judicial District—Frederick and Montgomery coun-
ties.
Sixth Judicial District—Washington and Allegany coun-
ties.
Seventh Judicial District—Howard, Anne Arundel and
Prince George's county.
Eighth Judicial District—Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's
counties.
Ninth and Tenth Judicial Districts—That the city of Bal-
timore shall be divided into two Judicial Districts, in which
the following courts shall be created:
The First District shall embrace the first ten wards—the
1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th.
The Second District shall embrace the remaining ten
wards—the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th,
19th and 20th.
Each of said districts shall contain one Circuit Court, the
Judge of which shall be elected for twenty years by the
qualified voters of the wards composing each of said dis-
tricts. Each of them shall also contain a Court of Equity,
Probate and Administration, in which there shall be a Chief
Presiding Judge, learned in the law, who shall be elected for
twenty years, with two associates, to be styled Judges of
Probate and Administration, who shall be men of sound
judgment and integrity, over thirty years of age, and elected
every ten years by the qualified voters of their respective
wards of each of said Judicial Districts.
There shall also be a Superior Court. whose jurisdiction
shall embrace the whole city, and all civil cases wherein the
matter in controversy shall exceed the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars, and where the damages claimed shall exceed the like
sum of fifteen hundred dollars, whose Judge shall be elected
for twenty years.
There shall also be a Criminal Court, whose jurisdiction
shall extend over the whole city, and whose Judge shall be
elected for twenty years.
The said Judges of the Circuit Courts, Courts of Equity,
Probate and Administration, Superior Court and Criminal
Court, shall be ineligible for the same positions, be over
thirty years of age, and their seats declared vacant upon
their arrival at seventy years of age.
In case of death, disqualification or removal, the remain-
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