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Register of Wills, said vacancy shall be filled by the Judges of the Orphans' court until the general election next thereafter for Delegates to the General Assembly, when a Register shall be elected to fill such vacancy. SEc. 19. The Legislature at its first session after the adoption of this constitution, shall fix the number of the Justices of the Peace and Constables for each ward of the city of Baltimore, and for each election district in the several counties, who shall be elected by the legal and qualified voters thereof respectively, at the next general election for delegates thereafter, and shall hold their offices for two years from the time of their election, and until their successors in office are elected and qualified, and the Legis lature may from time to time, increase or diminish the number of Justices of the Peace and Constables to be elected in the several wards and election districts, as the wants and interests of the people may require. They shall be by virtue of their offices, consenvators of the peace in the said counties and city respec tively, and shall have such duties and compensation as now exist or may be provided for by law. In the event of a vacancy in the office of a Justice of the Peace, the Governor shall appoint a person to serve as Justice of the Peace, until the next regular election of said officers, and in case of a vacancy in the office of constable, the county commissioners of the county in which vacancy may occur, or the Mayor and city council of Baltimore, as the case may be, shall appoint a person to serve as Constable until the next regular election themeafter for said officers. An appeal shall lie in all civil cases from the judgment of a Justice of the Peace to the Circuit court or to the court of Common Pleas of Baltimore city, as the case may be, and on all such appeals, either party shall be entitled to a trial by jury, according to the Jaws now existing or which may be hereafter enacted. And the Mayor and City Council may provide, by ordinance, from time to time, for the creation and governmenrt of such temporary additional police, as they may deem necessary to preserve the public peace. SEC. 20. There shall be elected in each county and in the city of Baltimore, every second year, two persons for the office of sheriff for each county, and two for the said city, the one of whom having the highest number of votes of the qualified voters of said county or city, or if both have an equal number, either of them, at the discretion of the Governor, to be commissioned by the Governor for the said office, and having served for two years, such person shall be ineligible for the two years next succeeding; bond with security, to be taken every year, and no sheriff shall be qualified to act before the same be given, In case of death, refusal, disqualification or removal out of the county before the expiration of the said two years, the other person chosen as afore said shall be commissioned by the Governor to execute the said office for the residue of the said two years, the said person giving 4
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