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Associate Judge of the Circuit Court, shall be two thou-
sand eight hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly,
and shall not be diminished during his continuance in office.

SEC. 25. There shall be a Clerk of the Circuit Court for
each County, who shall be elected by a plurality of the quali-
fied 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 Clerk of a Circuit Court, the Judges of said Court
shall have power to fill such vacancy until the general elec-
tion for Delegates to the General Assembly, to be held next
thereafter, when a successor shall be elected for the term of"
six years.

SEC. 26. The said Clerks shall appoint, subject to the con-
firmation of the Judges of their respective Courts', as many
deputies under them as the said Judge 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 compensa-
tion shall be according to existing or future provisions of the
General Assembly.

Part IV. — Courts of Baltimore City.

SEC. 27. There shall be in the Eighth Judicial Circuit six
courts, to be styled the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,
the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court of Common
Pleas, the Baltimore City Court, the Circuit Court of Balti-
more City, and the Criminal Court of Baltimore.

SEC. 28. The Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court
of Common Pleas, and the Baltimore City Court shall each
have concurrent jurisdiction in all civil common law cases,
and concurrently all the jurisdiction which the Superior
Court of Baltimore City and the Court of Common Pleas
now have, except jurisdiction in Equity, and except in
applications for the benefit of the Insolvent Laws of
Maryland, and in cases of Appeal Irom judgments of
Justices of the Peace in said city, whether civil or criminal,
or arising under the ordinances of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, of all of which appeal cases the
Baltimore City Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction; and
the said Court of Common Pleas shall have exclusive juris-
diction iu all applications for the benefit of the Insolvent
Laws of Maryland, and the supervision and control of the
Trustees thereof.