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SEC. 84. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City from the decision of the judge, or the
judges, holding the Baltimore City Court, in case of ap-
peal from a Justice of the Peace; but the decision by said
judge, or judges, shall be final; and all writs and other
process issued out of either of said courts requiring attes-
tation, shall be attested in the name of the Chief Judge
of the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City.
SEC. 85. Three of the judges of said Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, shall constitute a quorum of said court.
SEC. 36. All causes depending, at the adoption of this
Constitution, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the
Court of Common Pleas, the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
and the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, shall be pro-
ceeded in, and prosecuted to final judgment, or decree, in
the courts, respectively, of the same name established by
this Constitution, except cases belonging to that class,
jurisdiction over which is by this Constitution trans-
ferred to the Baltimore City Court, all of which shall,
together with all cases now pending in the City Court of
Baltimore be proceeded in, and prosecuted to final judg-
ment to said Baltimore City Court.,
SEC. 87. There shall be a clerk of each of the said
courts of Baltimore city, except the Supreme Bench, who
shall be elected by the legal and qualified voters of said
city, at the election to be held in said city on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday of November, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and shall hold his
office for six years from the time of his election, and
until his successor is elected and qualified, and be re-
eligible thereto, subject to be removed for wilful 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 thirty-five hundred dollars a year, payable only 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 said courts, the judges of said Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City shall have power to fill such vacancy,
until the general election of Delegates to the General As-
sembly, to be held next thereafter, when a clerk of said
court shall be elected to serve for six years therafter;
and the provisions of this Article in relation to the ap-
pointment of deputies by the clerks of the Circuit Courts
in the counties shall apply to the Clerks of the Courts in
Baltimore city.
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