72 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. IV

the Record of Proceedings in such Suit or Action, Issue, Presentment
or Indictment may be so transmitted, shall hear and determine the
same in like manner as if such Suit or Action, Issue, Presentment or
Indictment had been originally instituted therein; and the General
Assembly shall mate such modification of existing law as may be
necessary to regulate and give force to this provision.]*

Sec. 9. The Judge or Judges of any Court may appoint such
officers for their respective Courts as may be found necessary; and
such officers of the Courts in the City of Baltimore shall be appointed
by the Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. It shall
be the duty of the General Assembly to prescribe by law a fixed com-
pensation for all such officers, and said Judge or Judges shall from
time to time investigate the expenses, costs and charges of their respec-
tive Courts, with a view to a change or reduction thereof, and report
the result of such investigation to the General Assembly for its action.

Sec. 10. The Clerks of the several Courts created or continued
by this Constitution shall have charge and custody of the records and
other papers; shall perform all the duties, and be allowed the fees
which appertain to their several offices, as the same now are or may
hereafter be regulated by law. And the office and business of said
Clerks, in all their departments, shall be subject to the visitorial power
of the Judges of their respective Courts, who shall exercise the same,
from time to time, so as to insure the faithful performance of the
duties of said offices; and it shall be the duty of the Judges of said
Courts, respectively, to make from time to time such rules and regula-
tions as may be necessary and proper for the government of said
Clerks, and for the performance of the duties of their offices, which
shall have the force of law until repealed or modified by the General
Assembly.

Sec. 11. The election for Judges hereinbefore provided, and all
elections for Clerks, Registers of Wills and other officers provided in
this Constitution, except State's Attorneys, shall be certified, and the
returns made by the Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the Counties, and'
the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, respectively, to
the Governor, who shall issue commissions to the different persons for
the offices to which they shall have been, respectively, elected; and in
all such elections the person having the greatest number of votes shall
be declared elected.

Sec. 12. If in any case of election for Judges, Clerks df the
Courts of Law and Register of Wills, the opposing candidates shall
have an equal number of votes, it shall be the duty of the Governor
to order a new election; and in case of any contested election the
Governor shall send the returns to the House of Delegates, which
shall judge of the election and qualification of the candidates at such
election, and if the judgment shall be against the one who has been

*Thus amended by Act of 1874, Ch. 364, ratified by the people at November
election, 1875.