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emoluments pertaining thereto as he would have done if said
Court hud continued an independent Court; and the Judges
of said Superior Court shall make such rules and regulations
as may be found necessary to give full force and effect to this
provision.

Sec. 35. The Clerk of the Superior Court shall have the
custody of all dockets, records and papers now in the custody
of the Clerk of the Superior Court or Court of Common Pleas,
and of all such other dockets, records and papers as he may
hereafter he required by law or by the Judges of the said
Court to take custody of, and shall receive and record all deeds
and other papers required by law to be recorded in said city,
and not otherwise provided for; he shall, unless the General
Assembly shall provide a different mode, issue all marriage
and other licenses required by law, and discharge all the du-
ties and be subject to all the obligations heretofore discharg-
ed by or imposed upon the Clerk of the Superior Court and
the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, subject to such modi-
fications thereof as may be made by law or by the Judges of
his said Court.

Sec. 36. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore city
shall have the custody of all the dockets, records and papers
now in the office and custody of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Baltimore city, and of the Clerk of the Criminal
Court of Baltimore city, and of all dockets, records, and
papers hereafter pertaining to the business of the said Cir-
cuit Court as hereby constituted, or which he may be requir-
ed by law, or by the Judges of said Court to take custody of.
He shall discharge all the duties pertaining to the office of
Clerk of said Court, or which have heretofore been imposed by
law upon the Clerks of the Circuit, or Criminal Court of Balti-
more city, or which may hereafter be imposed by law or re-
quired by the Judges of his said Court. And the present
Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore city shall be Clerk
of the Circuit Court as hereby constituted until the end of
the time for which he was elected Clerk of said Criminal
Court.

PART VI.

JUSTICES or THE PEACE.

Sec. 37. The Judges of the Circuit Courts shall appoint in
each Election District of the several counties composing their
respective Circuits, and the Judges of the Superior Court
and of the Circuit Court of Baltimore city, by concurrent ac-
tion, shall appoint in the city of Baltimore such number of
Justices of the Peace as the wants and interests of the people