80 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. IV

the same powers, as are herein provided for the Judges of said Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City; and all of the provisions of this Constitu-
tion relating to the assignment of Judges to the Courts, now existing
in said City, and for the dispatch of business therein, shall apply to
the Court, for whose creation provision is made by this Section.* And
the General Assembly may reapportion, change or enlarge the jurisdic-
tion of the several Courts in Baltimore City. Until otherwise provided
by Law, the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, of the
Court of Common Pleas, of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, of
the Baltimore City Court, and of the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
shall each give Bond in such penalty as is now prescribed by Law to be
given by the Clerks of the Courts, bearing the same names, under the
present Constitution.

[Sec. 39. The General Assembly shall, as often as it may think the
same proper and expedient, provide by Law for the election of an
additional Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, and when-
ever provision is so made by the General Assembly, there shall be
elected by the voters of said City another Judge of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, who shall be subject to the same constitutional pro-
visions, hold Ms office for the same term of years, receive the same com-
pensation, and have the same powers as are, or shall be, provided' by the
Constitution or Laws of this State, for the Judges of said Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City, and the General Assembly may provide
by Laws, or the Supreme Bench by its rules for requiring causes in
any of the Courts of Baltimore City to be tried before the court without
a jury, unless the litigants or some one of them shall within such rea-
sonable time or times as may be prescribed, elect to have their causes
tried before a jury. And the General Assembly may reapportion,
change or enlarge the jurisdiction of the.several Courts in said city.] +

Part V.—Orphans' Courts.

Sec. 40. The qualified voters of the City of Baltimore, and of the
several counties, shall on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in
November next, and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter,
elect three men to be Judges of the Orphans' Courts of said city and
counties, respectively, who shall be citizens of the State, and residents
for the twelve months preceding, in the city or county, for which they
may be elected. They shall have all the powers now vested in the
Orphans' Courts of the State, subject to such changes as the Legislature
may prescribe. Each of said Judges shall be paid a per diem for the time
they are actually in session, to be regulated by Law, and to be paid by
the said city or counties, respectively. In case of a vacancy in the

*Under this section, the General Assembly, by the Act of 1888, Chapter 194,
established the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City, conferring upon it the
same jurisdiction as that possessed by the Circuit Court of Baltimore City.

tThus amended by Chapter 313, Acts of 1892, ratified by the people November
7, 1893.