the General Assembly may reapportion, change or enlarge
the jurisdiction of the several Courts in said City.1

Part V—Orphans' Court.

1 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 nineteen hundred and fifty-
eight, and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter,
elect three men to be Judges of the Orphans' Courts of said
City and Counties, respectively, 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 such compen-
sation as may be regulated by law, and to be paid by the
said City, or Counties respectively. In case of a vacancy
in the office of Judge of the Orphans' Court, the Governor
shall appoint, subject to confirmation, or rejection by the
Senate, some suitable person to fill the same for the residue
of the term.

* SEC. 41. There shall be a Register of Wills in each coun-
ty of the State, and the city of Baltimore, to be elected by
the legal and qualified voters of said counties and city, re-
spectively, who shall hold his office for four years from the
time of his election and until his successor is elected and
qualified; he shall be re-eligible, and subject at all times
to removal for willful neglect of duty, or misdemeanor in
office in the same manner that the Clerks of the Courts are
removable. In the event of any vacancy in the office of the
Register of Wills, said vacancy shall be filled by the Judges
of the Orphans' Court, in which such vacancy occurs, until
the next general election for Delegates to the General As-
sembly when a Register shall be elected to serve for four
years thereafter.

Part V-A—People's Court.

SEC. 41-A. There is hereby created a People's Court of
Baltimore City. Said Court shall consist originally of a Chief
Judge and two Associate Judges; the number of such
Judges may thereafter be increased or decreased by the
General Assembly by law but no such decrease shall affect

1 Thus amended by Chapter 813, Acts of 1892, ratified November 7, 1893.
2 Thus amended by Chapters 99 and 124 of 1956, ratified November 6, 1986.
3 Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1966, ratified November 6, 1956.