Appeals for the Eastern and Western
Shores and of the Clerks of County
Courts, and the Clerks of the Court of
Common Pleas, the Superior Court, and
the Criminal Court for Baltimore City,
shall perform all the duties appertaining
to their respective offices, and heretofore
vested in the Clerks of Baltimore County
Court and Baltimore City Court respec-
tively, and be entitled to all the fees
now allowed by law; and all laws re-
lating to the Clerks of Court of Appeal,
Clerks of the several County Courts and
Baltimore City Court, shall be applicable
to the Clerks respectively of the Clerk
of Court of Appeals, the Circuit Courts,
the Court of Common Pleas, the Su-
perior Court, and the Criminal Court of
Baltimore City, until otherwise provided
by law; and the said Clerks, when duly
elected and qualified according to law,
shall have the charge and custody of the
records and other papers belonging to
their respective offices.
Sec. 17. The qualified voters of the
city of Baltimore, and of the several
counties of the State, shall, on the first
Wednesday of November, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-one, and on the same day
of the same month in every fourth year
forever thereafter, elect three men to be
Judges of the Orphans' Court of said
city and counties respectively, who shall
be citizens of the State of Maryland, and
citizens of the city or county for which
they may be severally elected at the time
of their election. They shall have all
the powers now vested in the Orphans'
Courts of this State, subject to such
changes therein as the Legislature may
prescribe, and each of said Judges shall
be paid at a per diem rate, for the time
they are in session, to be fixed by the
Legislature, and paid by the said coun-
ties and city respectively.
Sec. 18. There shall be a Register of
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Wills in each county of the State, and in
the city of Baltimore, to be elected by
the legal and qualified voters of said
counties and city respectively, who shall
hold his office for six years from the time
of his election, and until a new election
shall take place, and be re-eligible there-
to, subject to be removed for wilful
neglect of duty, or misdemeanor in office,
in the same manner that the clerks of
the county courts are removable. In the
event of any vacancy in the office of
Register of Wills, said vacancy shall be
filled by the Judges of the Orphans'
Court until the general election next
thereafter for Delegates to the General
Assembly, when a Register shall be
elected to fill such vacancy.
Sec. 19. The Legislature at its first
session after the adoption of this Consti-
tution, shall fix the number of Justices
of the Peace and Constables for each
ward of the city of Baltimore, and for
each election district in the several
counties, who shall be elected by
the legal and qualified voters thereof
respectively, at the next general election
for delegates thereafter, and shall hold
their offices for two years from the time
of their election, and until their succes-
sors in office are elected and qualified;
and the Legislature may, from time to
time, increase or diminish the number
of Justices of the Peace and Constables
to be elected in the several wards and
election districts, as the wants and inter-
ests of the people may require. They
shall be, by virtue of their offices, con-
servators of the peace in the said coun-
ties and city respectively, and shall have
such duties and compensation as now
exist, or may be provided for by law. In
the event of a vacancy in the office of a
Justice of the Peace, the Governor shall
appoint a person to serve as Justice of
the Peace, until the next regular election
of said officers, and in case of a vacancy
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