[Art. 4, Sec. 37] MARYLAND MANUAL 577
ceeded in and prosecuted to final judgment in said Balti-
more City Court.
^ 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.
SEC. 38. The Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas shall
have authority to issue within said City, all marriage and
other licenses required by Law, subject to such provisions
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
of 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
i Thus amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956.
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