may be pending, the said court shall order and direct the record
of proceedings in such suit or action, issue, presentment or
indictment, to be transferred to some other court having
jurisdiction in such case, for trial; but in all other cases of
presentment or indictment pending in any of the courts of law
in this State having jurisdiction thereof, in addition to the sug-
gestion in writing of either, of the parties to such presentment of
indictment that such party can not have a fair and impartial
trial in the court in which the same may be pending, it shall
be necessary for the party making such suggestion to make it
satisfactorily appear to the court that such suggestion is true, or
that there is reasonable ground for the same; and thereupon the
said court shall order and direct the record of proceedings in
such presentment or indictment to be transmitted to some
other court having jurisdiction in such cases for trial; and such
right of removal shall exist upon suggestion in cases when
all the judges of said court may be disqualified, under the pro-
visions of this Constitution to sit in any case; and said court to
which the record of proceedings in suit or action issue, present-
ment or indictment may be so transmitted, shall hear and deter-
mine the same in like manner as if such suit or action, issue,
presentment or indictment had been originally instituted there-
in; and the General Assembly shall make such modification of
existing law as may be necessary to regulate and give force
to this provision.*

SEC. 9. The judge or judges of any court may appoint such
officers for their respective courts as may be found necessary;
and such officers of the Courts in the city of Baltimore shall
be appointed by the judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
city. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to prescribe
by law a fixed compensation for all such officers, and said
judge or judges shall from time to time investigate the expenses,
costs and charges of their respective courts, with a view to a
change or reduction thereof, and report the result of such in-
vestigation to the General Assembly for its action.

SEC. 10. The clerks of the several courts created or con-
tinued by this Constitution shall have charge and custody of
the records and other papers; shall perform all the duties,
and be allowed the fees which appertain to their several of-
fices, as the same now are or may hereafter be regulated by
law. And the office and business of said clerks, in all their de-
partments, shall be subject to the visitorial power of the
judges of their respective courts, who shall exercise the same,
from time to time, so as to insure the faithful performance
of the duties of said offices; and it shall be the duty of the

• Thus amended by Act of 1874, Chapter 364, ratified by the people at November elec-
tion, 1875.