3: liv CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 4.

municipal taxation upon the revenues accruing from business
done in the State by all foreign corporations.

SEC. 59. The office of "State Pension Commissioner" is
hereby abolished; and the Legislature shall pass no Law creating
. such office, or establishing any general pension system within
this State.

ARTICLE IV.

JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT.

Part I—General Provisions.

SECTION 1. The Judicial power of this State shall be vested in
a Court of Appeals, Circuit Courts, Orphans' Courts, such Courts
for the City of Baltimore as are hereinafter provided for, and
Justices of the Peace; all said Courts shall be Courts of Record,

-and each shall have a seal to be used in the authentication of all
process issuing therefrom. The process and official character of

-Justices of the Peace shall be authenticated as hath heretofore
been practised in this State, or may hereafter be prescribed by
Law.
Ex Parte O'Neill, 8 Md. 227. Shafer v. Mumma, 17 Md. 331.

SEC. 2. The Judges of all of the said Courts shall be citizens
of the State of Maryland, and qualified voters under this Consti-

tution, and shall have resided therein not less than five years, and
not less than six months next preceding their election, or appoint-
ment, in the Judicial Circuit, as the case may be, for which they
may be, respectively, elected, or appointed. They shall be not
less than thirty years of age at the time of their election, or

-appointment, and shall be selected from those who have been
admitted to practise Law in this State, ond who are most dis-
tinguished for integrity, wisdom and sound legal knowledge.

SEC. 3. The Judges of the said several Courts shall be elected
in the Counties by the qualified voters in their respective Judicial

-Circuits, as hereinafter provided, at the general election to be