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Court may be disqualified, under the provisions of this Con-
stitution, to sit in any case; and said Court to which the
Record of Proceedings in such Suit or Action, Issue, Pre-
sentment 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 by law 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 reduction
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 con-
tinued by this Constitution shall have charge and custody 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 regu-
lated 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 insure
the faithful performance of the duties of said offices; and
it shall be the duties of the Judges of said Courts, respec-
tively, to make from time to time such rules and regulations
as may be necessary and proper for the government of said
Clerks, and for the performance of the duties of their offices,
which shall have the force of law until repealed or modified
by the General Assembly.

SEC. 11. The election for Judges hereinbefore provided,
and all elections for Clerks, Registers of Wills and other offi-
cers provided in this Constitution, except State's Attorneys,
shall be certified, and the returns made by the Clerks of the
Circuit Courts for the Counties, and the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Baltimore City, respectively, to the Governor, who
shall issue commissions to the different persons for the offices
to which they shall have been, respectively, elected; and in

*Thus amended by Act of 1874, ch. 364, ratified by the people at
November election, 1875.