CONSTITTTTION — ART. IV.

lars, and of each associate judge of the Circuit Court, shall be two thousand
eight hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly, and shall not be dimin-
ished during his continuance in office

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SKC 25 There shall be a clerk of the Circuit Court for each county, who
shall he elected by a plurality of the1 qualified voters of said county, and shall
hold his office for six years from the time of his election, and until his successor
is elected and qualified, and be re-eligible, subject to be removed for wilful
neglect of duty, or other misdemeanor in office, on conviction in a court of
law In case of a vacancy in the office of clerk of a Circuit Court, the judges
of said court shall have power to fill such vacancy until the general election

1832, c 173,308,
1803, c 134.409,
444 , 1358, c 363
Clerks to be
elected
Removal
9 Md 242, 11
Md 296

for delegates to the General Assembly, to be held next thereafter, when a suc-
cessor shall be elected for the term of six years.
SKC. 26 The said clerks shall appoint, subject to the confirmation of the

Vacancy
1 Md 374;
11 Md 101.

judges of their respective courts, as many deputies under them as the said
judges shall deem necessary to perform, together with themselves, the duties
of the said office, who shall be removable by the said judges for incompetency
or neglect of duty, and whose compensation shall be according to existing or
future provisions of the General Assembly.

PART IV. — COURTS OF BALTIMORE CITY.

Deputies.

SEC 27 There shall be in the eighth judicial circuit six courts, to be styled
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
the Court of Common Pleas, the Baltimore City Court, the Circuit Court of
Baltimore City, and the Criminal Court of Baltimore.

Six courts.

SEC 28. The Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court of Common Pleas,
and the Baltimore City Court, shall, each, have concurrent jurisdiction in all
civil common law cases, and, concurrently, all the jurisdiction which the Su-
perior Court of Baltimore City and the Court of Common Pleas now have, ex-
cept jurisdiction in equity, and except in applications for the benefit of the in-
solvent laws of Maryland, and in cases of appeal from judgments of justices
of the pence in said city, whether civil or criminal, or arising under the ordi-
nances of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, of all of which appeal cases
the Baltimore City Court shiill have exclusive jurisdiction; and the said Court
of Common Pleas shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all applications for the
benefit of the insolvent laws of Maryland, and the supervision and control of
the trustees thereof.

Jurisdiction
1852, c 139, 198,
227, 251, «2, 328 ,
1853, c fi6, 23S,
451 , 1818, c 323
5Md 337,
7 Md 135 , 13
Md 314, 14 Md
173 , 28 Md 157,
362, 365, 29 Md
465, 695 , 30 Md
130, 34 Md 558,
39 Md 309 , 46
Md. 123, 289.

SEC. 29 The Circuit Court of Baltimore City shall have exclusive jurisdic-
tion in equity within the limits of said city, and nil such jurisdiction as the
present Circuit Court of Baltimore City has; provided, the said court shall not
have jurisdiction in applications for the writ of habeas corpus in cases of persons

Jurisdiction of
Circuit Court
5 Md 337 , 18
Md 505 , 31 Md
239 , 36 Md 604 ,
38 Md 203.

charged with criminal offences
SEC 30 The Criminal Court of Baltimore shall have and exercise all the ju-
risdiction now held and exercised by the Criminal Court of Baltimore, except
in such appeal cases as are herein assigned to the Baltimore City Court

Jurisdiction of
Criminal Court.
1852, c 344 .
1853, c 33
28 Ma 336

SEC 31. There shall be elected by the legal and qualified voters of said city,
at the election hereinbefore provided for, one chief judge and four associate
judges, who, together, shall constitute the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,

Supreme B inch
of Baltimore
City.

and shall hold their offices for the term of fifteen years, subject to the provisions
of this Constitution with regard to the election and qualifications of judges,
and their removal from office, and shall exercise the jurisdiction hereinafter

Term, fifteen
years

specified, and shall each receive an annual salary of three thousand five hun-
dred dollars, payable quarterly, which shall not be diminished during their
term of office; but authority is hereby given to the mayor and city council 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,

Salary.