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60 MARYLAND MANUAL.

which is by this Constitution transferred to the Baltimore
City Court, all of which shall, together with all cases now
pending in the City Court of Baltimore, be proceeded in and
prosecuted to final judgment in said Baltimore City Court.

SEC. 37. There shall be a Clerk of each of the said Courts
of Baltimore City, except the Supreme Bench, who shall be
elected by the legal and qualified voters of said city, at the
election to be held in said city, on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday of November, in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven, 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 thereto, subject to be
removed for wilful neglect of duty or other misdemeanor in
office, on conviction in a Court of Law. The salary of each
of the said Clerks shall be thirty-five hundred dollars a year,
payable only out of the fees and receipts collected by the
Clerks of said City, and they shall be entitled to no other
perquisites or compensation. In case of a vacancy in the
office of Clerk of any of said Courts, the Judges of said
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall have power to fill
such vacancy until the general election of Delegates to the
General Assembly to be held next thereafter, when a Clerk
of said Court shall be elected to serve for six years there-
after; and the provisions of this Article in relation to the
appointment of Deputies by the Clerks of the Circuit Courts
in the counties shall apply to the Clerks of the Courts in Bal-
timore City. '

SEC. 38. The Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas shall
have authority to issue, within said city, all marriage and
other licenses required by Law, subject to such provisions
as are now or may be prescribed by Law. The Clerk of the
Superior Court of said city shall receive and record all
deeds, conveyances and other papers which are or may be
required by Law to be recorded in said city. He shall
also have custody of all papers connected with the proceed-
ings on the Law or Equity side of Baltimore County Court
and of the dockets thereof, so far as the same have relation to
the City of Baltimore, and shall also discharge the duties of
Clerk to the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, unless other-
wise provided by Law.

Amendment adopted at the General Election held November,

1893.

SEC. 39. The General Assembly shall, as often as it may
think the same proper and expedient; provide by Law for the
election of an additional Judge of the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore City, and whenever provision is so made by the

 

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