xlvi CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 4.

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. 1

SEC. 6. All Judges shall, by virtue of their offices, be Conser-
vators of the Peace throughout the State; and no fees, or
perquisites, commission, or reward of any kind, shall be allowed
to any Judge in this State, besides his annual salary, for the dis-
charge of any Judicial duty.

Ex Parte O'Neill, 8 Md 227.

SEC. 7. No Judge shall sit in any case wherein he may be in-
terested, or where either of the parties may be connected with
him, by affinity or consanguinity, within such degrees as now
are, or may hereafter be prescribed by Law, or where he shall
have been of counsel in the case.

Crawford's Adm'r v. Crawford, 22 Md. 458.

SEC. 8. The parties to any cause may submit the same to the

court for determination, without the aid of a Jury; and in all
suits or Actions at Law, issues from the Orphans' Court or from
any court Sitting in Equity, and in all cases of presentments or
indictments for offences which are or may be punishable by

death pending in any of the courts of Law of this State having
jurisdiction thereof, upon suggestion in writing under oath of
either of the parties to said proceedings, that such party can not
have a fair and impartial trial in the Court in which the same
may be pending, the said Court shall order and direct the Record

of Proceedings in such Suit or Action, Issue, Presentment or
Indictment, to be transmitted to some other Court having juris-
diction in such case, for trial; but in all other cases of Present-
iment or Indictment pending in any of the Courts of Law in this
State having jurisdiction thereof, in addition to the suggestion in
writing of either of the parties to such Presentment or Indict-
ment that such party can not have a fair and impartial trial in
the Court in which the same may be pending, it shall be neces-
sary for the party making such suggestion to make it satisfactorily
1 Thus amended by Act of 1880, ch. 417, ratified by the people at November

Election, 1881.