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MARYLAND MANUAL. 403 ing the Baltimore City Court in case of appeal from a Jus tice of the Peace; but the decision by said judge or judges shall be final; and all writs and other process issued out of either of said courts, requiring attestation, shall be attested in the name of the Ohief Judge of the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. SEC. 35. Three of the judges of said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall constitute a quorum of said court. SEC. 36. All causes depending, at the adoption of this Constitution, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court of Common Pleas, the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, shall be proceeded in, and prosecuted to final judgment or decree, in the courts respectively of the same name established by this Constitu tion, except cases belonging to that class, jurisdiction over which is by this Constitution transferred to the Baltimore City Court, all of which shall, together with all cases now pending in the City Court of Baltimore, be proceeded in and prosecuted to final judgment in said Baltimore City Court. SEC. 37. There shall be a clerk of each of the said courts of Baltimore city, except the Supreme Bench, who shall be elected by the legal and qualified voters of said city, at the election to be held in said city on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, 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 thereto, subject to be removed for willful neglect of duty or other misdemeanor in office, on con viction in a court of law. The salary of each of the said clerks shall be thirty-five hundred dollars a year, payable only out of the fees and receipts collected by the clerks of said city, and they shall be entitled to no other perquisites or compensation. In case of a vacancy in the office of clerk of any of said courts, the judges of said Supreme Bench of Bal timore City shall have power to fill such vacancy until the general election of Delegates to the General Assembly to be held next thereafter, when a clerk of said court shall be elected to serve for six years thereafter; and the provisions of this Article in relation to the appointment of deputies by the clerks of the Circuit Courts in the counties shall apply to the Clerks of the Courts in Baltimore city. SEC. 38. The Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas shall have authority to issue within said city all marriage and other licenses required by law, subject to such provisions as are now or may be prescribed by law. The Clerk of the Su perior Court of said city shall receive and record all deeds, conveyances and other papers which are or may be required by law to be recorded in said city. He shall also have cus tody of all papers connected with the proceedings on the law or equity side of Baltimore County Court and the dockets |
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