398 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 4, Sec. 9]
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 investigation to the
General Assembly for its action.
SEC. 10. The Clerks of the several Courts, created, or
continued by this Constitution, shall have charge and cus-
tody of the records and other papers, shall perform all the
duties, and be allowed the fees, which appertain to their sev-
eral offices, as the same now are, or may hereafter be regu-
lated 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 officers; 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
shall have the force of Law until repealed or modified by
the General Assembly.
SEC. II. The election for Judges, hereinbefore provided,
and all elections for Clerks, Registers of Wills, and other
officers, provided in this Constitution, except State's Attor-
neys, shall be certified, and the returns made, by the Clerks
of the Circuit Courts of the Counties, and the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, respectively, to the Gov-
ernor, who shall issue commissions to the different persons
For the offices to which they shall have been, respectively,
elected; and in all such elections, the person having the
greatest number of votes shall be declared to be elected.
SEC. 12. If in any case of election for Judges, Clerks of
the Courts of Law and Register of Wills, the opposing can-
didates shall have an equal number of votes, it shall be the
duty of the Governor to order a new election; and in case
of any contested election, the Governor shall send the re-
' Thus amended, by Chapter 364, Acts of 1874, ratified November 2, 1875.
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