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election, and possessed of a freehold of lands and tensments above the value of 1000 pounds. Any three of the members constitute a board, of which the governor is president, and is entitled to vote on all questions in which the council are divided in opinion. The chancellor, judges, and justices, attorney-general, officers of the militia, registers of the land office, surveyors, and all other civil officers, except constables, overseers of the roads, and assessors, are appointed by the governor, with the advice of the council. Both houses of assembly choose their own officers; a majority of each constitutes a quorum; any bills, except those which relate to money, may originate in the senate. No member of congress, or person holding an office, under the United States, or any particular state, or employed in the regular land service, or marine, or minister of the gospel, can be elected a member of the general assembly, or of the council of state.

Judiciary.-The judges are appointed, by the governor and council, during good behaviour, and may be removed by the same authority, after conviction on indictment, with the concurrence of both houses. The chancellor, judges, attorney-general, clerks of the general court, and of the county courts, registers of wills, and of the land office, are also appointed by the governor and council, and are removeable only for misbehaviour, on conviction in a court of law. In each county there is a register of wills, commissioned by the governor, on the joint recommendation of the senate and house of delegates. There is a court of chancery and of admiralty, and a court of appeals, ▾

whose judgment is final and conclusive. The state is divided into six judicial districts, in each of which there is a county court of three judges, one of whom is styled chief judge, and the other two associate judges. If the judges, or party indicted, suggest that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in any of the courts of the county, where a trial is instituted, the case may be transmitted to the judges of the court of any adjoining county. The court of appeals is composed of the chief judges of the several judicial districts, any three of whom form a quorum; the judge who has given the decision appealed against in the county court, withdrawing from the bench till it is decided. The judiciary officers of the United States, for the state of Maryland, are; 1. A judge with a salary of 1600 dollars. 2. An attorney with fees. 3. A marshal. 4. A clerk.

Finances. Before the revolution, there was a capitation, or poll-tax, varying from 90 to 170 pounds of tobacco, on all white males, and negroes of both sexes, from sixteen to sixty years of age. Since the revolution, the expences in each county have been defrayed by taxes on licences, marriages, taverns, hawkers, and pedlars, levied by the courts of the state.

In November 1811, the funds of the state amounted to 1,721,852 dollars, consisting of stock of the United States, to the amount of 978,052 dollars. Bank stock, 163,537. Turnpike and other companies, 53,604. Debts, 24,283.

From the 1st of November 1814, to the 1st of November 1815, the sum of 262,824 dollars, 26 cents,

had been disbursed, and there remained in the treasury 569,717 dollars, 83 cents, 6 per cent. Stock: 335,104 dollars and 74 cents, funded 3 per cent. Stock of the United States: 4919 dollars and 13 cents, of the emission of bills of credit, made by an act of congress of the 18th of March 1780; and 76,587 dollars and 19 cents, specie. The appropriations were as follows:

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For half-pay due to officers and soldiers, 6,209 68

For the payment of the journal of ac

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The journal of accounts of the present session, say, 15,999 90

Part of the civil list, payable on the 1st day of November 1815, for the payment of which no ap. propriation was made by the legislature, at their last session,

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50,999 90

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Abstract of Valuation of Lands, Dwelling-houses, and Slaves, within each County of the State of Maryland, as made under the Act of Congress, of July 22, 1813, showing also the Quota of each County, of the direct Tax, as imposed by the Act of the 2d of August 1813, and the Rate necessary for raising the same.

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