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Sec. 9. The Judge or Judges of any Court may appoint
such officers for their respective Courts as may be found ne-
cessary, and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
prescribe by law a fixed compensation for all such officers.
Sec. -10. The Clerks of the several Courts created or con-
tinued by this Constitution, shall have charge and custody
of the records and other papers, shall perform all the duties,
and be allowed the fees, which appertain to their several of-
fices, as the same now are, or may hereafter be regulated by
law. And the office and business of said Clerks, in all their
departments, shall be subject to the visitorial power of the
Judges of their respective Courts, who shall exercise the
same from time to time, so as to insure the faithful perform-
ance of the duties of said Officers; and it shall be the duty of
the Judges of said Courts respectively to make from time to
time such rules and regulations as may be necessary and
proper for the government of said Clerks and far the perform-
ance of the duties of their offices, which shall have the force
of law until repealed or modified by the General Assembly.
Sec. 11. The election for Judges hereinbefore provided,
and all elections for Clerks, Registers of Wills and other offi-
cers provided in the Constitution, except State Attorneys,
shall be certified, and the returns made, by the Clerks of the
Circuit Courts of the counties, and the proper Clerk of the
"Supreme Court of Baltimore City," respectively, to the Gov-
ernor, who shall issue commissions to the different persons for
the offices to which they shall have been respectively elected;
and in all such elections, the person having the greatest
number of votes, shall be declared to be elected.
Sec. 12. If in any case of election for Judges, Clerks of
the Courts of Law, and Registers of Wills, the opposing
candidates shall have an equal number of votes, it shall
be the duty of the Governor to order a new election;
and in case of any contested election, the Governor shall
send the returns to the House of Delegates, who shall judge
of the election and qualification of the candidates at such
election.
Sec. 13. All public commissions and grants shall run thus :
" The State of Maryland, &c.," and shall be signed by the
Governor, with the seal of the State annexed and; all writ
and process shall run in the same style, and be tested, sealed
and signed as heretofore, or as may hereafter be provided by
law; and all indictments shall conclude, "against the peace,
government and dignity of the State."
PART II—COURT OF APPEALS.
Sec. 14. The Court of Appeals shall be composed of the
Chief Judges of the several Judicial Circuits of the State,
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