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ful neglect of duty, or other misdemeanor in office, on
conviction in a court of law. The salary of each of the
said clerks shall be the amount hereinbefore provided,
payable quarterly out of the fees and receipts collected
by the clerks of said city; and they shall be entitled to no
other perquisites or compensation. In case of a vacancy
in the office of clerk of any of the said courts, the judge
of said court shall have power to fill such vacancy until
the general election of delegates to the General Assembly,
to be held next thereafter, when a clerk of said court
shall be elected to serve for six years thereafter.
Sec. 38. The clerk of the Court of Common Pleas shall
have authority to issue, within said city, all marriage
and other licenses required by law, subject to such pro-
visions as are now or may be prescribed by law. The
clerk of the Superior Court of said city shall receive and
record all deeds, conveyances and other papers, which arc
or may be required by law to be recorded in said city. He
shall also have custody of all papers connected with the
proceedings of the law or equity side of Baltimore County
Court, and of the dockets thereof, so far as the same
have relation to the city of Baltimore; and shall also dis-
charge the duties of clerk to the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore city, unless otherwise provided by law.
Sec. 39. The General Assembly shall, whenever it
may think the same proper and expedient, provide by law
another court for the city of Baltimore, to consist of one
judge, who shall be subject to the same constitutional
provisions, hold his office for the same term of years and
receive the same compensation as the judge of the Su-
perior Court of said city; and the said court shall have
such jurisdiction and powers as may be prescribed by
law, and the judge thereof may be constituted a member
of the Supreme Bench of said city. And the General As-
sembly may reapportion the jurisdiction among the sev-
eral courts in Baltimore city, from time to time, as in its
judgment the public interest and convenience may re-
quire.
Part five of the report, relative to the Orphans' Courts,
was then taken up, the substitute offered by Mr. Merrick
(preserving the present system) for the 38th section
being under consideration, and the pending question be-
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