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said Courts respectively, during the time for which they were
severally elected, and until their successors are elected and
qualified, and in case of the death, resignation or disqualifi-
cation of either of said Clerks before the expiration of the
time for which they were elected, the Judge of the Court
where such death, resignation or other disqualification may
occur, shall have the power to appoint a Clerk as provided
by the thirty-ninth section of this Article; the present Clerk
of the Circuit Court of Baltimore city, shall continue to act
as Clerk of said Court until the first election for county offi-
cers next after the adoption of this Constitution, when a
Clerk of said Court shall be elected in the same manner and
hold his office for the same time, and be subject to the same
provisions of this Constitution as the Clerks of the Courts in
said city.

Sec. 41. The General Assembly shall, whenever it may
think the same proper and expedient, provide by law another
Court for the city of Baltimore, to consist of one Judge to
be elected by the legal and qualified voters of said city, who
shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold
his office for the same term of years, and receive the same
compensation as the Judge of the Superior Court of said city,
and said Court shall have such jurisdiction and powers as
may be prescribed by law; and the General Assembly may
re-apportion the civil jurisdiction among the several Courts
in Baltimore city, from time to time, as in their judgments
the public interest and convenience may require.

Sec. 42. The Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, shall
have authority to issue within said city, all marriage and
other licences required by law, subject to such provisions as
the General Assembly have now or may hereafter prescribe,
and the Clerk of the Superior Court of said city, shall re-
ceive and record all deeds, conveyances and other papers
vf\nc\i are required by law to be recorded in said city; he
shall also have custody of all papers connected with the pro-
ceedings on the Law and Equity side of Baltimore County
Court, and of the dockets thereof so far as the same have
relation to the city of Baltimore.

PART V.

Orphans' Courts.

Sec. 43. There shall be an Orphans' Court in the city of
Baltimore, and in each of the counties of this State; the
qualified voters of the city of Baltimore and of the several
counties of the State shall, on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday in the month of November, eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, elect three men to be Judges of the Orphans'