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visions as the legislature shall hereafter prescribe; and the clerk of
the Superior Court for said city shall have the custody of all deeds,
conveyances and other papers, now remaining in the office of the
clerk of Baltimore county court, and shall hereafter receive and
record all deeds, conveyances and other papers, which are required
by law to be recoded in said city. He shall also have the cus
tody of all otirer papers connected with the proceedings on the
law or equity side of Baltimore county court and of the dockers
thereof, so far as the same have relation to Baltimore city.
SEC. 16. That the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, the Clerks
of the Circuit Courts in the several counties, shall respectively
perform all the duties and be errtitled to the fees, which appertain!
to the offices of the Clerks of the Courts of Appeals for the
Eastern and Western Shores, and of the clerks of county courts,
and the clerks of the Court of Common Pleas, the Superior
Court and the Criminal Count for Baltimore city, shall perform
all the duties appertaining to their respective offices, and hereto
fore vested in the Clerks of BalLimore Count.y Court and Baltimore
city Court respectively, and be entitled to all the fees now allowed
by law; and all laws relating to the Clerk of the Court of Ap
peals, Clerks of the several county Courts and Baltimote city
Court, shall be applicable to the Clerks respectively of the Count
of Appeals, the Circuit Courts, the Court of Common Pleas,
the Superior Court, and the Criminal Court of Baltimore city
until otherwise provided by law; and the said Clerks, when duly
elected and qualified according to law, shall have the charge and
custody of the records and other papers belonging to their res
pective offices.

SEC. 17. The qualified voters of the city of Baltimore, and
of the several counties of the State, shall on the first Wednesday
of November eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and on the
same day of the same month in every fourth year forever
thereafter, elect three men to be judges of the Orphans' court
of said city and counties respectively, who shall be citizens of
the State of Maryland, and citizens of the city or county for which
they may be severally elected at the time of their election. They
shall have all the powers now vested in the Orphans' courts of
this State, subject to such changes therein as the legislature may
prescribe, and each of said Judges shall be paid ata per diem rate,
for the time they are in session, to be fixed by the legislature, and
paid by the said counties and city respectively.

SEC. 18. There shall be a Register of Wills in each county of
the State and in the city of Baltimore, to be elected by the legal
and qualified voters of said counties and city respectively, who
shall hold his office for six years from the time of hib election, and
until a new election shall take place, and be re-eligible thereto,
subject to be removed for wilful neglect of duty, or misdemeanor
in office, in the same manner that the clerks of the county courts
are removable. In the event of any vacancy in the office of