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 any of said courts,
the judges of said Supreme Bench of Baltimore 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 Superior 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 custody 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 Baltimore, and shall also discharge the
duties of Clerk to the Supreme 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 General
Assembly, there shall be elected by the voters of said city an-
other 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 Su-
preme 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 General Assembly may reapportion,
change, or enlarge the jurisdiction of the several courts in said
city.+

+ Thus amended by Chapter 313, Acts of 1892, ratified by the people November 7, 1893.