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 Chief 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.
ana 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 bis 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