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Constitutional Revision Study Documents of the Constitutional Convention Commission, 1968
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION STUDY DOCUMENTS [JUDICIAL BRANCH] COMPARISON

Headnotes

Present
Constitution

Constitution of
1867

Constitution of
1864

Constitution of
1851

Constitution of
1776

Amendments to
1776 Constitution

 

 

teen years, no person shall
be appointed who will be-
come disqualified by reason
of age and thereby unable
to continue to hold office
until the prescribed time
when his successor would
have been elected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judges: Con-
servators of
the Peace; pro-
hibition against
other fees'.

Sec. 6. All Judges shall,
by virtue of their offices,
be Conservators of the Peace
throughout the State; and
no fees, or perquisites, com-
mission, or reward of any
kind; shall be allowed to
any Judge in this State, be-
sides his annual salary, for
the discharge of any Ju-
dicial duty.

Sec. 6. All Judges shall,
by virtue of their offices, be
Conservators of the Peace
throughout the State; and
no fees, or perquisites, com-
mission, or reward of any
kind, shall be allowed to
any Judge in this State, be-
sides his annual salary, for
the discharge of any Ju-
dicial duty.

Sec. 6. All Judges shall,
by virtue of their offices, be
conservators of the peace
throughout the State, and
no fees or perquisites, com-
mission or reward of any
kind, shall be allowed to
any Judge in this State, be-
sides his annual salary or
fixed per diem for the dis-
charge of any Judicial duty.

Sec. 6. All Judges of the
Court of Appeals, of the
Circuit Courts, and of the
Courts for the city of Bal-
timore, shall, by virtue of
their offices, be conservators
of the peace throughout the
State.

52. That every chan-
cellor, judge, register of
wills, commissioner of the
loan office, attorney general,
sheriff, treasurer, naval of-
ficer, register of the land
office, register of the chan-
cery court, and every clerk
of the common law courts,
surveyor, and auditor of
public accounts, before he
acts as such, shall take an
oath "that he will not di-
rectly or indirectly receive
any fee or reward for do-
ing his office of
but what is or shall be al-
lowed by law, nor will di-
rectly or indirectly receive
the profits or any part of
the profits of any office held
by any other person, and
that he does not hold the
same office in trust or for
the benefit of any other
person."

 

 

Judges: Prohibi-
tion in certain
cases.

Sec. 7. No Judge shall
sit in any case wherein he
may be interested, or where
either of the parties may
be connected with him, by
affinity or consanguinity,
within such degrees as now
are, or may hereafter be
prescribed by Law, or where
he shall have been of coun-
sel in the case.

Sec. 7. No Judge shall
sit in any case wherein he
may be interested, or where
either of the parties may
be connected with him, by
affinity or consanguinity,
within such degrees as now
are, or may hereafter be
prescribed by Law, or where
he shall have been of coun-
sel in the case.

Sec. 7. No Judge shall
sit in any case wherein he
may be interested, or where
either of the parties may
be connected with him by
affinity or consanguinity
within such degrees as now
are or may herafter be pre-
scribed by law, or where
he shall have been of coun-
sel in the case.

Sec. 22. No Judge shall
sit in any case wherein he
may be interested, or where
either of the parties may
be connected with him by
affinity or consanguinity,
within such degrees as may
be prescribed by law, or
where he shall have been
of counsel in the case; and
whenever any of the judges
of the circuit courts, or of
the courts for Baltimore
city, shall be thus dis-
qualified, or whenever, by
reason of sickness, or any
other cause, the said judges,
or any of them, may be

 

 

 

 

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