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
thereof, so far as the same have relation to the city of Balti-
more, and shall also discharge the duties of Clerk to the Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore city unless otherwise provided by
law.

SEC. 39. The General Assembly shall, as often as it may
think the same proper and expedient, provide by law for the
election of an additional judge of the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore city, and whenever provision is so made by the Gen-
eral Assembly, there shall be elected by the voters of said
city another judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city,
who shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions,
hold his office for the same term of years, receive the same
compensation, and have the same powers as are, or shall be,
provided by the Constitution or laws of this State, for the
judges of said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, and the
General Assembly may provide by laws, or the Supreme
Bench by its rules for requiring causes in any of the courts
of Baltimore city to be tried before the court without a jury,
unless the litigants or some one of them shall within such
reasonable time or times as may hereafter be prescribed,
elect to have their causes tried before a jury. And the Gen-
eral Assembly may reapportion, change, or enlarge the juris-
diction of the several courts in said city.*

Part V—Orphans' Court.

SEC. 40. The qualified voters of the city of Baltimore and
of the several counties shall on the Tuesday next after the

*Thus amended by Chapter 313, Acts of 1892, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 7, 1893.