ART. IV] CONSTITUTION.

record during the sitting at which such decision may
be made; and the several Circuit Courts shall regulate,
by rules, the mode and manner of presenting such
points or questions to the Court in bane, and the decision
of the said Court in bane shall be the effective decision
in the premises, and conclusive, as against the party at
whose motion said points or questions were reserved;
but such decision in bane shall not preclude the right of
appeal or writ of error to the adverse party in those
cases, civil or criminal, in which appeal or writ of error
to the Court of Appeals may be allowed by law. The
right of having questions reserved shall not, however,
apply to trials of Appeals from judgments of Justices of
the Peace, nor to Criminal cases below the grade of
felony, except when the punishment is confinement in
the penitentiary; and this section shall be subject to
such provisions as may hereafter be made by law.

Shueey v. Sioner, 47 Md. 107. Costidan v. Bond, 65 Md. 122.

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Sec. 23. The Judges of the respective Circuit Courts
of this State, and of the Courts of Baltimore City,
shall render their decisions in all cases argued before
them, or submitted for their judgment, within two
months after the same shall have been so argued or
submitted.

Opinions.

Sec. 24. The salary of each Chief Judge, and of the
Judge of the Court of Appeals from the City of Balti-
more, shall be three thousand five hundred dollars, and
of each Associate Judge of the Circuit Court , shall be
two thousand eight hundred dollars per annum pay-
able quarterly, and shall not be diminished during his
continuance in office.*

Salaries.

Sec. 25. There shall be a Clerk of the Circuit Court
for each County, who shall be elected by a plurality
of the qualified 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 election for

*By the Act of 1892, ch. 388, the salary of the Chief Judges was increased
to four thousand five hundred dollars, and of the Associate Judges to three
thousand six hundred dollars per annum.

Clerks.