ruling or decision is made, upon motion, to have the point
or question reserved for the consideration of the three
judges of the Circuit, who shall constitute a court in banc
for such purpose; and the motion for such reservation shall
be entered of record during the sitting at which such deci-
sion may be made; and the several Circuit Courts shall
regulate, by rules, the mode and manner of presenting such
points or questions to the court in banc, and the decision of
the said court in banc shall be the effective decision in the
premises, and conclusive, as against the party at whose
motion said points or questions were reserved; but such de-
cision in banc shall not preclude the right of appeal or writ
of error to the adverse party in those cases, civil or crimi-
nal, in which appeal or writ of error to the Court of Ap-
peals may be allowed by law. The right of having questions
reserved shall not, however, apply to trials of appeals from
judgments of Justices of the Peace, nor to criminal cases
below the grade of felony, except when the punishment is
confinement in the penitentiary; and this section shall be
subject to such provisions as may hereafter be made by
law..

SEC. 23. The judges of the respective Circuit Courts of
this State and of the courts of Baltimore city, shall render
their decisions in all cases argued before them, or sub-
mitted for their judgment, within two months after the
same shall have been so argued or submitted..

SEC. 24. The salary of each Chief Judge and of the
Judge of the Court of Appeals from the city of Baltimore
shall be three thousand five hundred dollars, and of each
Associate Judge of the Circuit Court shall be two thousand
eight hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, and
shall not be diminished during his continuance in office. 1.

SEC. 25. There shall be a Clerk of the Circuit Court for
each county, who shall be elected by a plurality of the quali-
fied voters of said county, and shall hold his office for six
years from the time of his election, and until his successor
is elected and qualified, and be re-eligible, subject to be
removed for wilful neglect of duty or other misdemeanor
in office, on conviction in a court of law. In case of a va-
cancy in the office of Clerk of a Circuit Court, the Judges
of said court shall have power to fill such vacancy until.

1 By Ch. 889 of 1945 the salary of tile Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals
was set at $14,500; that of each Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals at
$13,500; and that of each judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City and of
the first seven judicial circuits at $9,500. See also Sections 14 and 31A of this
Article..