shall constitute the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, and
shall hold their offices for terms of fifteen years, subject to
the provisions of this Constitution with regard to the election
and qualifications of judges and their removal from office,
and shall exercise the jurisdiction, hereinafter specified, and
shall each receive an annual salary of three thousand five
hundred dollars,tt 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. 31-A. In addition to the authority granted to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore by the preceding sec-
tion to pay to each of the judges of the Supreme Bench
the annual sum of Five Hundred Dollars, authority is
hereby given to said Mayor and City Council to pay to each
of said judges such further annual sum as an addition to
their respective salaries as the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall from time to time deem right and proper,
provided, that any such sum being once granted shall not
be diminished 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 shall be
elected and duly qualified, and from time to time, to provide
for 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 Bench 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 Uhe 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 one or more of the judges of said
court.

*Increased by Acts of 1892, Chapter 388, to four thousand five hundred dol-
lars.

** Increased by Acts of 1927, Chapter 235, to six thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five dollars.

***Sec. 31-A adopted at the November election 1926, as proposed by Ch. 116,
Acts* of 1924.