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Maryland Manual, 1935
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MARYLAND MANUAL 477


Legislature may prescribe. Each of said judges shall be paid
a per diem for the time they are actually in session, to be
regulated by law, and to be paid by the said city or counties,
respectively. In case of a vacancy in the office of Judge of
the Orphans’ Court, the Governor shall appoint, subject to
confirmation or rejection by the Senate, some suitable person
to fill the same for the residue of the term.
Sec. 41. There shall be a Register of Wills in each county
of the State, and the city of Baltimore, to be elected by the
legal and qualified1 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 qualified1;
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 the 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.2


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-
ively, 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-
stables so 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.
Sue. 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

‘Amended by Article XVII, Section 1.
‘Cf. Supra.


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