70 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. IV,

as they may think fit, not to exceed the term for which he was elected,
by a resolution to be passed at the session next preceding his attaining
said age. In case of the inability of any of said Judges to discharge
his duties with efficiency, by reason of continued sickness, or of
physical or mental infirmity, it shall be in the power of the General
Assembly, two-thirds of the members of each House concurring, with
the approval of the Governor, to retire said Judge from office.

Sec. 4. Any Judge shall be removed from office by the Governor,
on conviction in a Court of Law, of incompetency, of wilful neglect
of duty, misbehavior in office or any other crime, or on impeachment,
according to this Constitution, or the Laws of the State; or on the
address of the General Assembly, two-thirds of each House concurring
in such address, and the accused having been notified of the charges
against him, and having had opportunity of making his defence.

Sec. 5. After the election for Judges, to be held as above men-
tioned, upon the expiration of the term, or in case of the death,
resignation, removal, or other disqualification of any Judge, the
Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified to fill said office, who
shall hold the same until the next general election for members of the
General Assembly, when a successor shall be elected, whose tenure
of office shall be the same, as hereinbefore provided; but if the vacancy
shall occur in the city of Baltimore, the time of the election shall be
the fourth Wednesday in October following,

[Sec. 5. After the election for Judges, as hereinbefore provided,
there shall be held in this State, in every fifteenth year thereafter,
on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November of such year, an
election for Judges as herein provided; and in case of death, resigna-
tion, removal or disqualification by reason of age or otherwise of
any Judge, the Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified to
fill said office, who shall hold the same until the next General Election
for members of the General Assembly, when a successor shall be elected,
whose term, of office shall be the same as hereinbefore provided, and
upon the expiration of the term of fifteen years for which any Judge,
may be elected to fill a vacancy, an election for his successor shall
take place at the next General Election for members of the General
Assembly to occur upon or after the expiration of his said term; and
the Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified to hold said office
from the expiration of such term of fifteen years until the election and
qualification of his successor.]*

Sec. 6. All Judges shall by virtue of their offices be Conservators
of the Peace throughout the State; and no fees, or perquisites, com-
mission or reward of any kind, shall be allowed to any Judge in this
State, besides his annual salary, for the discharge of any Judicial duty.

*Thus amended by Act of 1880, Ch. 417, ratified by the people at November
election, 1881.