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SEC. 24. The salary of each Chief Judge and of the Judge
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 nof be
diminished during his continuance in office.*

SEC. 25. There shall be a Clerk of the Circuit Court for
each county, who shall be elected, by a plurality of the quali-
fied vofers 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 ofher 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.

Dowling vs. Smith, 9 Md., 242. Stansbury vs. Middleton, 11 Md.,
296. Wells vs. Monroe, 86 Md., 449. Levin vs. Hewes, 118 Md.

SEC. 26. The said clerks shall appoint, subject to the con-
firmation of the judges of their respective courts, as many
deputies under them as the said judges shall deem necessary
to perform, together with themselves, the duties of the said
office, who shall be removable by the said judges for incom-
petency, or neglect of duty, and whose compensation shall be
according to existing or future provisions of the General
Assembly.

Part IV—Courts of Baltimore City.

SEC. 27. There shall be in the Eighth Judicial Circuit six
courts, to be styled the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city, the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, the Court of Common
Pleas, the Baltimore City Court, the Circuit Court of Balti-
more city* and the Criminal Court of Baltimore.

SEC. 28. The Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court
of Common Pleas and the Baltimore City Court shall each
have concurrent jurisdiction in all civil common law cases,
and concurrently all the jurisdiction which, the Superior

*By the Act of 1892, Chapter 888, 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.
•Circuit Court No. 2 established by Act of 1888, Chapter 194.
tCriminal Court No. 2 established by rule of the Supreme Bench, December
21,1897. Sec. 87 Md., 191.

t The Jurisdiction of the Baltimore City Court, the Superior Court and the
Court of Common Pleas was enlarged by the Act of 1870, Chapter 177.