Judge of the Court of Appeals from the city of Balti-
more, shall be three thousand five hundred dollars, and of
each Associate Judge of the Circuit Court shall be two
thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, payable
quarterly, and shall not be diminished during his con-
tinuance in office.*

CLERKS TO BE ELECTED—-REMOVAL—VACANCY.

SEC. 25. There shall be clerk of the Circuit Court for
each county, who shall be elected by a plurality of the
qualified voters of said county, and shall hold his office
for six years from the time of his election and until his
successor is elected and qualified, and be re-eligible,
subject to be removed for wilful neglect of duty, or other
misdemeanor in office, on conviction in a court of law. In
case of a vacancy in the office of a clerk of a Circuit
Court, the judges of said court shall have power to fill
such vacancy until the general election for delegates to
the General Assembly, to be held next thereafter, when a
successor shall be elected for the term of six years.

DEPUTY CLERKS.

SEC. 26. The said clerks shall appoint, subject to the
confirmation of the judges of their respective courts, as
many deputies under them as the said judges shall deem
necessary to perform, together with themselves, the
duties of the said office, who shall be removable by the
said judges for incompetency or neglect of duty, and
whose compensation shall be according to existing or
future provisions of the General Assembly.

DUTIES OF OFFICERS.

Adjutant General.—The Adjutant General is appointed
by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate. Salary, $2,000. He is allowed a clerk at a
salary of $1,200. No special date is set for his appoint-
ment, and he comes under the constitutional rule of fifty
days from the beginning of the regular session of the
Legislature of the year he is to be appointed. No bond
is required of the Adjutant General. He is next to the
Governor in rank over the Maryland National Guard and
the Maryland Naval Militia, and has direct charge over

NOTE.— Under general appropriation Act of 1894, increased to
$4,500 for the Chief Justices and the Judge in the Court of Appeals
from Baltimore city, and $3,600 salary for the Associate Justices.