three thousand five hundred dollars, and of each Associate
Judge of the Circuit Court shall be two thousand eight hun-
dred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, and shall not be
diminished during his continuance in office. ****

SEC. 25. There shall be a Clerk of the Circuit Court for
each county, who shall be elected by a plurality of the quali-
fied voters of said county, 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, subject to be removed
for wilful neglect of duty or other misdemeanor in office, on
conviction in a court of law. In case of a vacancy in the
office of Clerk of a Circuit Court, the Judges of said court
shall have power to fill such vacancy until the general elec-
tion for Delegates to the General Assembly, to be held next
thereafter, when a successor shall be elected for the term of
six years.

SEC. 26. The said clerks shall appoint, subject to the con-
firmation of the judges of their respective courts, as many
deputies under them as the said judges shall deem necessary
to perform, together with themselves, the duties of the said
office, who shall be removable by the said judges for incom-
petency, or neglect of duty, and whose compensation shall be
according to existing or future provisions of the General
Assembly.

Part IV—Courts of Baltimore City.

SEC. 27. There shall be in the Eighth Judicial Circuit six
courts, to be styled the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city, the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, the Court of Common
Pleas, the Baltimore City Court, the Circuit Court of Balti-
more City* and the Criminal Court + of Baltimore.

SEC. 28. The Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court
of Common Pleas and the Baltimore City Court shall each
have concurrent jurisdiction in all civil common law cases,
and concurrently all the jurisdiction which the Superior
Court of Baltimore city and the Court of Common Pleas now
have, except jurisdiction in equity, and except in applica-
tions for the benefit of the insolvent laws of Maryland, and
in cases of appeal from judgments of Justices of the Peace in

** By the Act of 1892, Chapter 388, the salary of the Chief Judges wag in-
creased to four thousand five hundred dollars, and of the Associate Judges to three
thousand six hundred dollars per annum,

*** By the Act of 1922, Chapter 500, the salary of the Chief Judges was in-
creased to eight thousand five hundred dollars and each Associate Judge to five
thousand seven hundred fifty dollars,

**** By the Act of 1927, Chapter 235, the salary of the Chief Judges was in-
creased to eleven thousand five hundred dollars, and each Associate Judge to eight
thousand five hundred dollars.
* Circuit Court No. 2 established by Act of 1888, Chapter 194.
+ Criminal Court No. 2 established by rule of the Supreme Bench, December
21, 1897. See 87 Md. 191.
++ The jurisdiction of the Baltimore City Court, the Superior Court and the
Court of Common Pleas was enlarged by the Act of 1870, Chapter 177.
1 Amended by Article XVII, Section 1.
2 Cf. Supra.