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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 banc
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 banc 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 Peace, nor to
criminal cases below the grade of felony, except when the
punishment is confinement in the penitentiary; and this sec-
tion shall be subject to such provisions as may hereafter be
made by law.
Shueey vs. Stoner, 47 Md., 107. Costidan vs. Bond, 65 Md., 122.
SEC. 23. The judges of the respective Circuit Courts of |
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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.
SEC. 24. The salary of each Chief Judge and of the Judge |
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of the Court of Appeals from the city of Baltimore shall be
three thousand five hundred dollars, and of each Associate
Judge of the Circuit Court shall be two thousand eight hun-
dred 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 |
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each county, who shall be elected by a purality 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 re-
moved 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 Delegates to the General Assembly, to be held
next thereafter, when a successor shall be elected for the term
of six years.
Bowling vs. Smith, 9 Md., 242. Stansbury vs. Middleton, 11 Md.,
296. Wells vs. Monroe, 86 Md., 449.
*By the Act of 1892, Chapter 388, the salary of the Chief Judges was In-
creased to four thousand five hundred dollars, and of the Associate Judges to
three thousand six hundred dollars per annum. |
Clerks. |
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