SEC. 59. The office of "State Pension Commissioner" is
hereby abolished; and the Legislature shall pass no law cre-
ating such office, or establishing any general pension system
within this State.

*SEC. 60. The General Assembly of Maryland shall have
the power to provide by suitable general enactment (a) for
the suspension of sentence by the Court in criminal cases;
(b) for any form of the indeterminate sentence in criminal
cases, and (c) for the release upon parole in whatever manner
the General Assembly may prescribe, of convicts imprisoned
under sentence for crimes.

ARTICLE IV.
JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT
Part 1.—General Provisions.

SECTION 1. The judicial power of this State shall be vested
in a Court of Appeals, Circuit Courts, Orphans' Courts, such
Courts for the city of Baltimore as are hereinafter provided
for, and Justices of the Peace; all said Courts shall be Courts
of Record, and each shall have a seal to be used in the au-
thentification of all process issuing therefrom. The process
and official character of Justices of the Peace shall be authen-
ticated as hath heretofore been practiced in this State, or
may hereafter be prescribed by law.

SEC. 2. The judges of all of the said courts shall be citizens
of the State of Maryland, and qualified voters under this
Constitution, and shall have resided therein not less than five
years, and not less than six months next preceding their elec-
tion or appointment in the judicial circuit, as the case may be,
for which they may be respectively elected or appointed. They
shall be not less than thirty years of age at the time of their
election or appointment, and shall be selected from those who
have been admitted to practice law in this State, and who are
most distinguished for integrity, wisdom and sound legal
knowledge.

SEC. 3. The Judges of the said several Courts shall be
elected in the counties by the qualified voters in their respec-
tive Judicial Circuits as hereinafter provided, and in the
City of Baltimore, at the general election to be held on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in November, as now provided
for in the Constitution. Each of the said Judges shall hold his
office for the term of fifteen years from the time of his election,

* Thus added by Chapter 453, 1924, ratified November 2, 1925.