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manner as the books, papers and records, of the court of appeals for the eastern shore shall be kept
and thereafter all copies, transcripts and exemplifications, of such records, drawn and made out in
due form of law, and authenticated by the clerk of the court of appeals of the respective shore, and
certified in the manner directed by law, shall be of the same force, effect; and validity, to every in-
tent and purpose whatever, and shall have the same operation in law, as copies, transcripts and
exemplifications, heretofore drawn, made out and authenticated, by either clerk of the general
court, and certified in the manner prescribed by law.
XIX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where the chancellor is or may be interested, and
where bills in chancery may properly lie, the chief judge of the district in which the chancery court
shall sit, shall hear, determine, order and decree thereon, in the same manner as if such chief judge
was the chancellor, and an appeal may lie in such cases from the decree of the judge to the court of
appeals, who may hear and determine in the same as on appeals from the chancery court; provided
that the process on all such cases shall be issued by the register in chancery, tested in the name of
the said judge.
XX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where the clerks of the county courts are directed by
law to transmit records, entries, transcripts of deeds recorded in the land records of their respective
counties, to the clerk of the general court, the said clerks of the several counties shall be and they
are hereby directed to transmit the same to the clerks of the court of appeals of the respective shore
who shall enter the same in a record book, (to be provided and kept for that purpose only, ) and the
transcript shall be safely kept among the papers of the office of the court of appeals of the respec-
tive shore; and the said clerks of the court of appeals shall respectively be entitled to receive, one
shilling for each deed in each transcript mentioned; and the said record entries, or copies of the
same properly and legally authenticated, shall be of the same force, validity and effect, as record
entries in the office of the general court, or copies thereof, heretofore have been, and subject never-
theless to the same proviso.
XXI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That hereafter the county courts shall be held in each county within
the six constitutional judicial districts of this state, at the places where the county, courts were held
immediately before the confirmation of the aforesaid act, and shall commence at the times following
to wit: In Saint-Mary's county on the first Monday in March and August, in Charles county on the
third Monday in March and August, in Prince-George's county, on the first Monday in April and
September, in Cecil county on the first Monday in April and September, in Kent county on the third
Monday in March and September, in Queen-Anne's county on the first Monday in. May and fourth
Monday in October, in Talbot county on the fourth. Monday in May and second Monday in Novem-
ber, in Calvert county on the second Monday in May and October, in Anne-Arundel county on the
third Monday in April and September, in Montgomery county on the first Monday in March and
November, in Caroline county on the first Monday in March and second Monday of October, in
Dorchester county on the third Monday in March and fourth Monday in October, in Somerset
county on the second Monday in April and September, in Worcester county on the fourth Monday
in May and November, in Frederick county on the first Monday in February and August, in
Washington county on the fourth Monday in March and October, in. Allegany county on the
third Monday in April and second Monday in October, in Baltimore county, on the fourth Mon-
day in March and first Tuesday in October, in Harford county on the second Monday in March and
August,
XXII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That from and after the passing of this act, and the promulgation there-
of in the respective counties, it shall and may be lawful for the respective clerks of the present
county courts to issue process returnable to the county courts on the days herein before limitted for
holding said courts in their respective counties, and such process, so to be issued, shall be tested in
the name of the late chief justice of the district in which the same shall issue, until the judges
shall have qualified under their respective appointments; and farther, to discharge all and singular
the other duties of clerks as heretofore.
XXIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all causes, pleas, process and. proceedings, civil or criminal
returnable or which shall be returnable to, or depending before, the late county courts of this state,
and all writs and other process which have issued in virtue of the act to vest temporary powers
in the several clerks in the several counties of this state, and all writs, process and proceedings
whatsoever, which have issued from the general court, returnable to the general court of either
shore, shall be continued, and shall be returned to the several county courts in each judicial district,
by the proper officer of each respective county to whom they shall or have been respectively directed
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