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Maryland Manual, 1927
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MARYLAND MANUAL. 405


legal and qualified voters of said counties and city, respec
tively, who shall hold his office for six years from the time of
his election, and until his successor is elected and qualified;
he shall be re-eligible, and subject at all times to removal for
willful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office in the same
manner that the clerks of the courts are removable. In the
event of any vacancy in tile office of the Register of Wills,
said vacancy shall be filled by the Judges of the Orphans’
Court, in which such vacancy occurs, until the next general
election for Delegates to the General Assembly, when a
Register shall be elected to serve for six years thereafter.


Part VI--Justices of the Peace.

SEC. 42. The Governor, by and with the advice and con
sent of the Senate, shall appoint such number of Justices of
the Peace and the County Commissioners of the several coun
ties, and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, respect-
is-ely, shall appoint such number of Constables, for the sev
eral election districts of the counties and wards of the city
of Baltimore, as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by
law; and Justices of the Peace and Constables so appointed
shall be subject to removal by the judge or judges having
criminal jurisdiction in the county or city, for incompetency,
willful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office, on convic
tion in a court of law. The Justices ‘of the Peace and Con
stablesso appointed and commissioned shall be conservators
of the peace; shall hold their office for two years, and shall
have such jurisdiction, duties and compensation, subject to
such right of appeal in all cases from the judgment of Jus
tices of the Peace, as hath been heretofore exercised, or
shall be hereafter prescribed ‘by law.

SEC. 43. In the event of a vacancy in the office of a Jus
tice of the Peace, the Governor shall appoint a person to
serve as Justice of the Peace for the residue of the term; and
in case of a vacancy in the office of Constable, the County
Commissioners of the county in which the vacancy occurs,
or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as the case
may be, shall appoint a person to serve as Constable for the
residue of the terms.


Part VIIl—Sheriffs.

SEC. 44. There shall be elected ‘in each county in every
second year, one person, resident in said county above the
age of twenty-five years, and at least five years preceding


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