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State having jurisdiction thereof, in addition to the sugges-
tion in writing of either of the parties to such Presentment
or Indictment that such party cannot have a fair and impar-
tial trial in the Court in which the same may be pending,
it shall be necessary for the party making such suggestion
to make it satisfactorily appear to the Court that such sug-
gestion is true, or that there is reasonable ground for the
same; and thereupon the said Court shall order and direct
the Record of Proceedings in such Presentment or Indict-
ment to be transmitted to some other Court having juris-
diction in such cases for trial; and such right of removal
shall exist upon suggestion in cases when all the Judges of
said Court may be disqualified, under the provisions of this
Constitution, to sit in any case; and said Court to which
the Record of Proceedings in such Suit or Action, Issue,
Presentment or Indictment may be so transmitted, shall
hear and determine the same in like manner, as if such
Suit or Action, Issue, Presentment or Indictment had been
originally instituted therein; and the General Assembly
shall make such modification of existing law as may be
necessary to regulate and give force to this provision. *

SEC. 9. The Judge or Judges of any Court may appoint
such officers for their respective Courts as may be found
necessary; and such officers of the Courts in the City of
Baltimore shall be appointed by the Judges of the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City. It shall be the duty of the
General Assembly to prescribe bylaw a fixed compensation
for all such officers; and said Judge or Judges shall, from
time to time, investigate the expenses, cost and charges of
their respective Courts, with a view to a change or reduc-
tion thereof, and report the result of such investigation to
the General Assembly for its action.

SEC. 10. The Clerks of the several Courts created or
continued by this Constitution shall have charge and cus-
tody of the records and other papers; shall perform all the
duties, and be allowed the fees which appertain to their
several offices, as the same now are or may hereafter be
regulated by law. And the office and business of said
Clerks, in all their departments, shall be subject to the
visitorial power of the Judges of their respective Courts,
who shall exercise the same, from time to time, so as to

*Thus amended by Act of 1874, ch. 364, ratified by the people at

November election, 1875.