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[Art. 4, Sec. 31A] MARYLAND MANUAL 645
three thousand five hundred dollars' payable quarterly, which shall not be diminished during their term of office; but authority is hereby given to the Mayor and City Coun- cil of Baltimore to pay to each of the said judges an annual addition of five hundred dollars to their respective salaries; provided, that the same, being once granted, shall not be diminished, nor increased, during the continuance of said Judges in office. 2 SEC. 31A. In addition to the authority granted to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore by the preceding sec- tion to pay to each of the judges of the Supreme Bench the annual sum of Five Hundred Dollars, authority is hereby given to said Mayor and City Council to pay to each of said judges such further annual sum as an addition to their respective salaries as the Mayor and City Council of Balti- more shall from time to time deem right and proper, pro- vided, that any such sum being once granted shall not be diminished during the continuance of said judges in office. SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, as soon as the Judges thereof shall be elected and duly qualified, and from time to time, to pro- vide for the holding of each of the aforesaid Courts, by the assignment of one, or more of their number to each of the said Courts, who may sit either, separately, or together, in the trial of cases; and the said Supreme Bench of Balti- more City may, from time to time, change the said assign- ment, as circumstances may require, and the public interest may demand; and the Judge, or Judges, so assigned to the said several Courts, shall, when holding the same, have all the powers and exercise all the jurisdiction, which may belong to the Court so being held; and it shall also be the duty of the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, in case of the sickness, absence or disability of any Judge or Judges, assigned as aforesaid, to provide for the hearing of the cases, or transaction of the business assigned to said Judge or Judges, as aforesaid, before some one, or more of the Judges of said Court. •" SEC. 33. The said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall have power, and it shall be its duty, to provide for the holding of as many general terms as the performance of its duties may require, such general terms to be held by not less than three judges; to make all needful rules and regulations for the conduct of business in each of the said ' See note to Article 4, Section 24, above. 'Added by Chapter 116, Acts of 1924, ratified November 2, 1926. See footnote to Article 4, Section 24, above. ' Thus amended by Chapter 10, Acts of 1966. ratified November 8, 1966. |
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