clare the same vacant, and the vacancy therein shall be filled
as in case of vacancy for any other cause, and such officer shall
be subject to suit by the State for the amount that ought to
be paid into the Treasury; and no person holding any office
created by or existing under this Constitution or laws of the
State, or holding any appointment under any court in this
State, shall receive more than three thousand dollars a year as
a compensation for the discharge of his official duties," except
in cases specially provided in this Constitution.

SEC. 2. The several courts existing in this State at the time
of the adoption of this Constitution shall, until superseded
under its provisions, continue with like powers and jurisdic-
tion, and in the exercise thereof, both at law and in equity, in
all respects, as if this Constitution had not been adopted; and
when said courts shall be so superseded, all causes then de-
pending in said courts shall pass into the jurisdiction of the
several courts, by which they may be respectively superseded.

SEC. 3. The Governor and all officers, civil and military,
now holding office under this State, whether by election or
appointment, shall continue to hold, exercise and discharge
the duties of their offices (unless inconsistent with or other-
wise provided in this Constitution), until they shall be super-
seded under its provisions, and until their successors shall be
duly qualified.

SEC. 4. If at any election directed by this Constitution,
any two or more candidates shall have the highest and an
equal number of votes, a new election shall be ordered by the
Governor, except in cases specially provided for by this Con.
stitution.

SEC. 5. In the trial of all criminal cases, the jury shall be
the judges of law, as well as of fact.

SEC. 6. The right of trial by jury of all issues of fact in
civil proceedings in the several courts of law in. this State,
where the amount in controversy exceeds the sum of five dol-
lars, shall be inviolably preserved.

SEC. 7. All general elections in this State shall be held on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of No-
vember, in the year in which they shall occur; and the first
election of all officers, who, under this Constitution, are re-
quired to be elected by the people, shall, except in cases herein
specially provided for, be held on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday of November, in the year eighteen hundred and

sixty-seven.

SEC. 8. The Sheriffs of the several counties of this State
and of the city of Baltimore shall give notice of the several
elections authorized by this Constitution, in the manner pre-