[Art. 4, Sec. 34] MARYLAND MANUAL 479
SEC. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City from the decision of the Judge, or Judges
holding the Baltimore City Court, in case of appeal from a
Justice of the Peace; but the decision by said Judge, or
Judges, shall be final; and all writs and other process issued
out of either of said Courts, requiring attestation, shall be
attested in the name of the Chief Judge of the said Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City.
SEC. 35. Three of the Judges of said Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City, shall constitute a quorum of said Court.
SEC. 36. All causes depending, at the adoption of this
Constitution, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the
Court of Common Pleas, the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
and the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, shall be proceeded
in, and prosecuted to final judgment, or decree, in the
Courts, respectively, of the same name established by this
' Constitution, except cases belonging to that class, jurisdic-
tion over which is by this Constitution transferred to the
Baltimore City Court, all of which shall, together with all
cases now pending in the City Court of Baltimore, be pro-
ceeded in and prosecuted to final judgment in said Balti-
more City Court.
(1) SEC. 37. There shall be a Clerk of each of the said
Courts of Baltimore city, except the Supreme Bench, who
shall be elected by the legal and qualified voters of said
City, at the election to be held in said City on the Tuesday
next after the First Monday of November, in the year nine-
teen hundred and fifty-eight, and shall hold his office for
four years from the time of his election, and until his suc-
cessor is elected and qualified, and be re-eligible thereto,
subject to be removed for willful neglect of duty, or other
misdemeanor in office, on conviction in a Court of Law.
The salary of each of the said Clerks shall be payable as
provided in Section 45 of Article 3 of this Constitution, and
they shall be entitled to no other perquisites, or compensa-
tion. In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk of any of
said Courts, the Judges of said Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City, shall have power to fill such vacancy until the
general election of Delegates to the General Assembly, to
be held next thereafter, when a Clerk of said Court shall be
elected to serve for four years thereafter; and the provi-
sions of this Article in relation to the appointment of Depu-
ties by the Clerks of the Circuit Courts in the Counties shall
apply to the Clerks of the Courts in Baltimore City.
i Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.
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