SEC. 29. The Circuit Court of Baltimore City hall have
exclusive jurisdiction in equity within the limits of said city,
and all such jurisdiction as the present Circuit Court of Bal-
timore City has; provided, the said court shall not have juris-
diction in applications for the writ of hateas corpus in cases
of persons charged with criminal offences.

SEC. 30. The Criminal Court of Baltimore shall have and
. exercise all the jurisdiction now held and exercised by the
Criminal Court of Baltimore, except in such appeal cases as
are herein assigned to the Baltimore City Court.

SEC. 31. There shall be elected by the legal and qualified
voters of said city, at the election, hereinbefore provided for,
one Chief Judge and four Associate Judges, who, together,
shall constitute the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, and
rihall hold their offices for terms of fifteen years, subject to
the provisions of this Constitution with regard to the election
nd qualifications of judges and their removal from office,
and shall exercise the jurisdiction, liereinafter specified, and
shall each receive an annual salary of three thousand five
hundred dollars,* payable quarterly, which shall not be
diminished during their term of office; but authority is here-
by given to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to pay
to each of the said judges an annual addition of five hundred
dollars to their respective salaries; provided, that the same
being once granted shall not be diminished nor increased
during the continuance of said judges in office.

SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the said Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, as soon as the judges thereof hall be
elected and duly qualified, and from time to time, to provide
tor the holding of each of the aforesaid courts, by the assign-
ment of one or more of «their number to each of the said
courts, who may sit either separately or together in the trial
of cases; and the said Supreme Bendh of Baltimore City
may, from time to time, change the said assignment, as cir-
cumstances may require, and the public interest may de-
mand ; and the judge or judges, so assigned to the said sev-
eral courts, shall, when holding the same, have all the powers
and exercise all the jurisdiction which may belong to the
court so being held; and it shall also be the duty of the said
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, in case of the sickness,
absence or disability of any judge or judges assigned as
aforesaid, to provide for the hearing of the cases, or trans-
action of the business assigned to said judge or judges, as
aforesaid, before some ene or more of the judges of said
court.

* Increaaed by Act of 1882, Chapter 388. to four thousand five hundred
dollars.