[The Judges, before whom any case may hereafter be tried,
in either the Baltimore City Court, the Superior Court of
Baltimore City, or the Court of Common Pleas, shall have
exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine, and the said
judge shall hear and determine all motions for a new trial
where such motions arise, either on questions of fact or for
misdirection upon any matters of law, and all motions in
arrest of judgment, or upon any matters of law, determined
by the said judge, and all such motions shall be heard and
determined within thirty days after they are made.] *

SEC. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore City from the decision of the judge or the judges hold-
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,
and 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 his 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

*Thus amended by the Act of 1870, Chapter 177, as provided by Section
39 of Article 4 of the Constitution.