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Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Grievances and Courts of Justice, to Whom Were Referred Three Orders of the House of Delegates, Relative to the Judiciary: Severally Adopted on the 5th and 9th of February, and the 1st of March
Ordered, That the committee on Grievances and Courts of J us tice be instructed to inquire into the expediency of altering the constitution of this State, so as to establish therein, six judicial circuits for each of which, one judge shall be appointed, with a salary of two thousand dollars.
And further, to establish a Court of Appeals, consisting of three judges, to each of whom there shall be allowed a salary of two thousand dollars.
And further, to establish a High Court of Chancery, with a like salary to the Chancellor of two thousand dollars.
And further to establish by law, a superior for the city of Balti more, which shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the court for that circuit in all cases, when the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars; and which shall, also, at stated terms in the year, exercise all the jurisdiction that is now exercised, by the Baltimore city court. To the judge of such superior court shall be allowed a like salary of two thousand dollars.
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