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office under such appointment until the thirty-first day of December
immediately following the first Congressional election occurring six
months or more after the date of his appointment. No Judge of said
Court, who has stood for election to succeed himself and not been
elected, shall thereafter be appointed to said Court, and no Judge of
said Court, who has failed to stand for election when eligible, shall
be appointed to succeed himself.
(3) In order to qualify for election or re-election [an incumbent
Judge] all candidates shall file with the Supervisors of Elections of
Baltimore City not later than thirty days before the date of the appli-
cable election a certificate [signed and duly acknowledged, stating
the basis of his eligibility and the term or remamender of term for
which he is eligible for election. Thereupon, the name of such Judge,
together with a statement of the term or remamender of term for
which he is eligible, shall be placed upon the ballot to be used in said
City in such election, with no party designation whatever and with
no opposing candidate, with space provided to permit any voter to
cast his vote for or against the continuance in office of such Judge;
if the votes cast for the continuance in office of such Judge repre-
sent a majority of all the votes cast for or against his continuance
in office, such Judge shall hold office for the unexpired remamender of
the term or for the full term of eight years, as the case may be.] of
candidacy in a form to be supplied by the Supervisors.
Unless his office shall have been abolished pursuant to this section,
each Judge of said Court shall continue to hold office after the expira-
tion of his period of appointment or term until a successor shall
qualify. As used in this section, "Congressional election" means any
of the biennial elections at which members of the House of Repre-
sentatives are regularly chosen.
Said Court shall have such jurisdiction (which may be made exclu-
sive as to any class or classes of civil cases in Baltimore City), with
such right of appeal, therefrom, and the Chief Judge and Associate
Judges thereof shall have such powers and duties, as the General
Assembly shall prescribe from time to time by law. The Judges of
said Court shall have full power to regulate by rules the administra-
tion, procedure and practice of said Court; such rules shall have the
force of law until rescinded or modified by said Judges or the Gen-
eral Assembly. Unless otherwise provided by law, (1) all powers
granted by this section or by law to said Court or the Judges thereof
as -a body may be exercised by a majority of the Judges thereof, and
(2) said Court shall not be a Court of Record.
There shall be a Chief Constable of said Court, who shall perform
therein the duties prescribed for Clerks of Court by Section 10 of
this Article and such other duties as shall be prescribed by law or by
rule of said Court. Such Chief Constable shall be appointed, in the
manner hereinafter prescribed, by the Judges of said Court; and
such Chief Constable shall appoint, in the manner hereinafter pre-
scribed, all original, subsequent and additional constables and clerks
employed pursuant to this section, and shall supervise and direct the
work of all such constables and clerks. There shall be appointed
originally fourteen such constables and sixteen such clerks; the
number of either may, on the joint recommendation of said Court
and said Chief Constable, be increased by the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore City; no vacancy in the position of any constable or
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