118 COLONIZATION SOCIETY. [ART. 19.

CRIMINAL COURT or BALTIMORE.

74. The clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore shall give
bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty of fourteen thou-
sand dollars, with sufficient securities to be approved by the
judge of said court, and conditioned for the faithful performance
of all the duties now required, or which may hereafter be
required of him by law, and to be recorded in the office of said
clerk.

75. The said clerk shall renew said bond at the same time, and
under the same penalty, as are prescribed for the clerks of the
Circuit Courts.

CIRCUIT COURT FOR BALTIMORE CITY.

76. There shall be a clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
city, who shall in his election, tenure of office, liabilities, powers,
duties and compensation, in all respects stand on the same foot-
ing with the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city;
Provided, that his powers, duties and compensation shall be
limited to cases in which the Circuit Court has jurisdiction; and
he shall enter into bond to the State in the penalty of twenty
thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his
duties, with security to be approved by the judge of said court.

ARTICLE XIX.
Colonization Society.

1*. The corporate existence of the Maryland State Coloniza-
tion Society is hereby continued, and all its immunities, privileges
and franchises as fully secured to the same as they now exist or
as they existed at any time, prior to the eighth day of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty.

2*. The President and Directors of the said Society shall be
entitled to receive from the Treasurer, upon the warrant of the
Comptroller, the sum of seventy dollars for each emancipated
slave or free negro, male or female, above the age of ten years,
and the sum of thirty-five dollars for each of such persons, under