COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	Sec. 5. Upon every occurrence or re-	See Section 5.15, Nomination and Appoint-
	currence of a vacancy through death, resig-	ment, p. 16.
	nation, removal, disqualification by reason
	of age or otherwise, or expiration of the	Section 5.22. Judicial Term of Office.
	term of fifteen years of any judge, or crea-	The continuance in office of each judge
	tion of the office of any judge, or in any	shall be subject to approval or rejection at
	other way, the Governor shall appoint a	the next general election following the expi-
	person duly qualified to fill said office, who	ration of two years from the date of the oc-
	shall hold the same until the election and	currence of the vacancy to which he was
	qualification of his successor; except that	appointed and at the general election every
	when a vacancy shall exist in the office of	eight years thereafter. The continuance in
	Chief Judge of the Supreme Bench of	office of each judge of the Court of Appeals
	Baltimore City, the Governor may designate	and of the Intermediate Appellate Court
	an Associate Judge of said Supreme Bench as Chief Judge of said Supreme Bench,	shall be subject to approval or rejection by the voters of the entire State. The continu-
	and such appointee as Chief Judge shall hold such office for the residue of the term	ance in office of each judge of the Superior Court and of the District Court shall be sub-
	for which he was last elected an Associate Judge of said Supreme Bench. His succes-	ject to approval or rejection by the voters of the county or the district in which the office
	sor shall be elected at the first biennial general election for Representatives in	then exists. The Court of Appeals shall pre- scribe by rule for a poll by secret ballot of
	Congress after the expiration of the term of fifteen years (if the vacancy occurred in that way) or the first such general	the lawyers of the area in which a judge stands for election regarding the desirability of his continuance in office. The Court of
	election after one year after the occurrence of the vacancy in any other way than	Appeals shall prescribe by rule for publica- tion of the results of the poll. If the voters
	through expiration of such term. Except in case of reappointment of a judge upon	reject the continuance in office of a judge the office shall be vacant.
	expiration of his term of fifteen years, no
	person shall be appointed who will become
	disqualified by reason of age and thereby
	unable to continue to hold office until the
	prescribed time when his successor would
	have been elected.
	Sec. 6. All Judges shall, by virtue of	Section 5.24. Judicial Compensation.
	their offices, be Conservators of the Peace throughout the State; and no fees, or per-	Each judge shall be compensated solely by the State for his judicial service. The com-
	quisites, commission, or reward of any	pensation of a judge shall not be reduced
	kind; shall be allowed to any Judge in this	during his continuance in office. Judges of
	State, besides his annual salary, for the	the same court shall be paid the same com-
	discharge of any Judicial duty.	pensation, including any pension based upon
		length of service, except that a uniform re-
		duction in compensation may be made appli-
		cable to all judges of the same court
		appointed after the effective date of the re-
		duction. A pension payable to a retired
		judge or to his surviving spouse, or to the
		surviving spouse of a deceased judge, pur-
		suant to provisions in effect during his con-
		tinuance in office, shall not be reduced.
		See also Section 535, Restriction of Non-
		Judicial Activities, p. 6.
	Sec. 7. No Judge shall sit in any case
	wherein he may be interested, or where
	either of the parties may be connected with
	him, by affinity or consanguinity, within

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