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the voters of said city, qualified, under this Constitution, an-
other judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city, who
shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold his
office for the same term of years, receive the same compensa-
tion, 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 assign-
ment 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 section.* And
the General Assembly may re-apportion, 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 Cir-
cuit Court of Baltimore City, of the Baltimore City Court,
and of the Criminal 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 pres-
ent Constitution. |
Additional
judges. |
[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 Gen-
eral Assembly, there shall be elected by the voters of said city
another judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city, who
shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold
his office for the same term of years, receive the same com-
pensation, and have the same powers as are, or shall be, pro-
vided by the Constitution or laws of this State, for the judges
of said Supreme Bench of Baltimore city, and the General
Assembly may provide by laws, or the Supreme Bench by its
rules for requiring causes in any of the courts of Baltimore
city to be tried before the court without a jury, unless the
litigants or some one of them shall within such reasonable
time or times as may be prescribed, elect to have their causes
tried before a jury. And the General Assembly may re-ap-
portion, change or enlarge the jurisdiction of the several
courts in said city. V
Part V—Orphans' Court. |
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Three Judges. |
SEC. 40. The qualified voters of the city of Baltimore and
of the several counties shall on the Tuesday next after the
'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.
+Thus amended by Chapter 313, Acts of 1892, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 7, 1893. |
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