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for the disposition of all formal and uncontested business, and
such other business as the parties litigant shall consent to try
before a single Judge; but it shall be the right of any party
to an original cause pending in said Court under such rules
and regulations as the Court may prescribe, to require the
presence of at least two of the Judges of said Court at the trial
thereof.

Sec. 30. The Circuit Court of Baltimore city shall have all
the jurisdiction and authority heretofore exercised by the
Criminal Court and the Circuit Court of Baltimore city, or
which may hereafter be prescribed by law; and the Judges
shall apportion and distribute the business of their Court in
such a manner as shall best facilitate the dispatch of business
and promote the ends of justice.

Sec. 31. One of the Judges of said Court shall sit as Chief
Judge of the Orphans' Court of the city of Baltimore, and
either of the Judges? may sit alone in either department of
the business of said Court, but it shall be the right of any
party to; an issue pending in said Court, under such rules as
the Court shall fix, to require the presence of at least two of
the Judges at the trial thereof; and no order for an injunction
or the appointment of a receiver shall be passed without the
concurrence of at least two of the Judges therein.

Sec. 32. Each of said Judges shall receive an annual salary
of three thousand five hundred dollars, payable quarterly.

Sec. 33. There shall be a Clerk of the Superior Court and
a Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore city, who shall be
elected by the qualified voters of the city of Baltimore, hold
their respective offices for the term of six years, and until a
new election is held and his successor duly qualified, and be
re-eligible thereto, but removable by the Judges of the Court
of which they are respectively Clerks, for incompetency, wil-
ful neglect of duty, misdemeanor in office, and such other
causes as may be prescribed by law.

Sec. 34. The Judges of the Superior Court as herein consti-
tuted, shall designate as Clerk of said Court, in their discretion,
either the Clerk of the present Superior Court, or the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas, and the person so designated
as Clerk shall continue to act as such until the end of the
time for which he was elected; the other of said Clerks shall,
until the end of the time for which he was elected, continue
to act as Clerk in that department of the business of the Su-
perior Court which, in the judgment of the Judges of said
Court, nearest corresponds to the business of the Court of
which he was elected Clerk, and shall receive the fees and