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 reg-
ulate 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 nec-
essary; and such officers of the Courts in the City of Balti-
more shall be appointed by the Judges of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City. It shall be the duty of the General Assem-
bly 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 Assem-
bly 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 regulated by law.
And the office and business of said Clerks, in all their depart-
ments, 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, respectively, 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repealed or modified by the General Assembly.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. II. 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 make by the Clerk 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.