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Baltimore, except in such Appeal Cases as are herein assigned to the
Baltimore City Court,

For a case dealing with article 4, section 13, of the constitution of
1851, but no longer applicable by reason of changes in this section, see
State v. Shillinger, 6 Md. 451.

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 shall hold their offices for the term 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,*
payable quarterly, which shall not be diminished during their term of
office; but authority is hereby given to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to pay to each of the said Judges aa 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 Balti-
more 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 assignment 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 circumstances
may require, and the public interest may demand; and the Judge or
Judges, so assigned to the said several 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 transaction of the business assigned to
said Judge or Judges, as aforesaid, before some one or more of the
Judges of said Court.

The supreme bench of Baltimore City has power under this section to

assign two judges to the criminal court, each to sit with a separate jury.

This section construed in connection with article 4, section 21, and article

5, sections 7 and 11. Jackson v. State, 87 Md. 195.

Sec. 33. The said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall have
power, and it shall be its duty, to provide for the holding of as many
general Terms as the performance of its duties may require, such
general Terms to be held by not less than three Judges; to make all
needful rules and regulations for the conduct of business in each of the

*Increased by act of 1892, chapter 388, to four thousand five hundred dollars.
See also act of 1908, chapter 180.