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 other-
wise 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
Baltimore City, and whenever provision is so made by the
General Assembly, there shall be elected by the voters of
said city another judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City, who .shall be subject to the same constitutional pro-
visions, 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 Supreme 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 be pre-
scribed, 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. 1.

Part V—Orphans' Court..

SEC. 40. The qualified voters of the city of Baltimore,
and of the several counties, shall on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in November next, and on the same day
in every fourth year thereafter,2 elect three men to be
Judges of the Orphans' Courts of said city and counties, re-
spectively, who shall be citizens of the State, and residents
for the twelve months preceding, in the city or county, for
which they may be elected. They shall have all the powers
now vested in the Orphans' Courts of the State, subject to
such changes as the Legislature may prescribe. Each of
said judges shall be paid a per diem for the time they are.

1 Thus amended by Chapter 313, Acts of 1892, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 7, 1893.
2 Modified by Article XVII, Section 3..