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having the highest number of votes of the qualified voters of
said county or city, or if both have an equal number, either
of them, at the discretion of the Governor to be commissioned
by the _ Governor for said office, and, having served for two
years, such persons shall be ineligible for the two years next
succeeding; bond with security, to be taken every year, and
no Sheriff shall be qualified to act before the same be given.
In case of death, refusal, disqualification or removal out of
the county, before the expiration of the said two years, the
other person chosen as aforesaid, shall be commissioned by
the Governor to execute the said office for the residue of the
said two years, the said person giving bond with security as
aforesaid. No person shall be eligible to the office of Sheriff
but a resident of such county or city respectively, who shall
have been a citizen of this State at least five years preceeding
his election, and above the age of twenty-one years. The
two candidates, properly qualified, having the highest num-
ber of legal ballots, shall be declared duly elected for the
office of Sheriff for such county or city, and returned to the
Governor, with a certificate of the number of ballots for each
of them; "

Mr. Daniel gave notice that at the proper time he would
submit the following amendment to part 5 of the report of
the Committee on the Judiciary Department, relating to the
Courts of Baltimore city, being from section 27 to section 36,
inclusive:

COURTS OP BALTIMORE CITY.

Sec. —. There shall be in the Eighth Judicial Circuit three
Courts, to be styled the Superior Court of Baltimore city, the
Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore city and the Criminal
Court of Baltimore city; the said Superior Court shall con-
sist of three Judges; and the said Court of Common Pleas
and Criminal Court of one Judge each, all of whom shall be
appointed in the same manner, hold their offices for the same
time, and have the same general powers and duties as are
herein prescribed for other Judges of Courts of Record in this
State.

Sec. —. The Superior Court of Baltimore city shall have
jurisdiction over all suits where the debt or damage claimed
shall exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, and in case any
plaintiff or plaintiffs shall recover less than the sum or value
of one thousand dollars, he or they shall be allowed or ad-
judged to pay costs in the discretion of the Court. The said
court shall also have jurisdiction as a Court of Equity within
the limits of the said city over all suits and matters over

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