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thereafter, when a Clerk of said Court shall be elected
to serve for six years thereafter; 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 Baltimore City.
Wells v. Monroe, 86 Md. 450.

Licenses.

Sec. 38. The Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
shall have authority to issue within said city all mar-
riage 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 re-
ceive 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 con-
nected with the proceedings on the Law or Equity side
of Baltimore County Court and 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 otherwise pro-
vided by Law.

Additional

Court.

Sec. 39. The General Assembly shall, whenever it
may think the same proper and expedient, provide, by
Law, another Court for the City of Baltimore, and pre-
scribe its jurisdiction and powers; in which case there
shall be elected by the votersof said City, qualified under
this Constitution, another Judge of the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, who shall be subject to the same con-
stitutional provisions, hold his office for the same term
of years, receive the same compensation, and have the
same powers, as are herein provided for the Judges of
said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City; and all of the
provisions of this Constitution relating to the assignment
of Judges to the Courts, now existing in said City, and
for the dispatch of business therein, shall apply to the
Court, for whose creation provision is made by this Sec-
tion.* And the General Assembly may reapportion,
change or enlarge the jurisdiction of the several Courts
in Baltimore City. Until otherwise provided by Law,
the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, of the
Court of Common Pleas, of the Circuit Court of Balti-
more City, of the Baltimore City Court, and of the Crim-
inal Court of Baltimore, shall each give Bond in such
penalty as is now prescribed by Law to be given by the
Clerks of the Courts, bearing the same names, under the
present Constitution.

Under this section, the General Assembly, by the Act of 1888, Chapter 194,.
established the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore city, conferring upon it the
same jurisdiction as that possessed by the circuit Court of Baltimore city.