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MARYLAND MANUAL 465 tinue in office in accordance with the resolution of the Gen- eral Assembly in each case. In case of the inability of any of said Judges to discharge his duties with efficiency, by reason of continued sickness, or of physical or mental infirm- ity, it shall be in the power of the General Assembly, two thirds of the members of each House concurring, with the approval of the Governor, to retire said Judge from offlce.* Sac. 4. Any judge shall be removed from office by the Governor, on conviction in a court of law of incompetency, of wilful neglect of duty, misbehavior in office or any other crime, or on impeachment, according to this Constitution, or the laws of the State; or on the address of the General As- sembly, two-thirds of each House concurring in such address, and the accused having been notified of the charges against him, and having had opportunity of making his defence. SEC. 5. After the election for judges, as hereinbefore pro- vided, there shall be held in this State, in every fifteenth year thereafter, on the Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem- ber of such year, an election for judges as herein provided; and in case of death, resignation, removal or disqualification by reason of age or otherwise of any judge, the Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified to fill said office, who shall hold the same until the next general election for mem- bers of the General Assembly, when a successor shall be elected, whose term of office shall be the same as hereinbefore provided, and upon the expiration of the term of fifteen years for ‘which any judge may be elected to fill a vacancy, an elec- tion for his successor shall take place at the next general election for members of the General Assembly to occur upon or after the expiration of his said term; and the Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified to hold said office from the expiration of such term of fifteen years until the election and qualification of his successor.* SEC. 6. All judges shall, by virtue of their offices be con- servators of the peace throughout the State; and no fees, or prequisites, commission or reward of any kind, shall be al- lowed to any judge in this State, besides his annual salary, for the discharge of any judicial duty. SEC. 7. No judge shall sit in any case wherein he may be interested, or where either of the parties may be connected with him by affinity or consanguinity within such degrees as now are or may hereafter be prescribed by law, or where he shall have been of counsel in the case. *Thus amended by Act of 1931, Chapter 479, ratified by the people at the November election, 1932. Thus amended by Act of 1880, Chapter 417, ratified by the people at November election, 1881. |
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