indictment that such party can not have a fair and impar-
tial 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 sug-
gestion 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 provisions of this Constitu-
tion to sit in any case; and said court to which the record of
proceedings in such suit or action, issue, presentment or in-
dictment may be so transmitted, shall hear and determine
the same in like manner as if such suit or action, issue, pre-
sentment 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. 1.

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 investigation 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
departments, 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 per-
formance of the duties of said offices; and it shall be the
duty of the judges of said courts, respectively, to make
from time to time such rules and regulations as may be
necessary and proper for the government of said clerks,
and for the performance of the duties of their offices, which.

1 Thus amended by Act of 1874, Chapter 364, ratified by the people at
November election, 1875..