142 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. IV

reason of age or otherwise of any Judge, the Governor shall
appoint a person duly qualified to fill said office, who shall
hold the same until the next General Election for members of
the General Assembly, when a successor shall be elected, whose
term of office shall be the same as hereinbefore provided, and
upon the expiration of the term of fifteen years for which any
Judge may be 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
Ms successor.]*

Sec. 6. All Judges shall, by virtue of their offices, be Con-
servators 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
discharge of any Judicial duty.

Ex Parte O'Neill, 8 Md. 227. State v Glenn, 54 Md. 572. Sevinsky v
Wagus, 76 Md 335.

Sec. 7. No Judge shall sit in any case wherein he may be
interested, 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.
Craufurd v. Craufurd, 22 Md. 447.

Sec. 8. The parties to any cause may submit the same to the
court for determination, without the aid of a jury; and the
Judge, or Judges of any Court of this State, except the Court
of Appeals, shall order and direct the record of proceedings in
any suit or action, issue or petition, presentment or indictment,
pending in such court, to be transmitted to some other court,
(and of a different circuit, if the party applying shall so elect,)
having jurisdiction in such cases, whenever any party to such
cause, or the counsel of any party, shall make a suggestion, in
writing, supported by the affidavit of such party or his counsel,
or other proper evidence, that the party cannot have a fair or
impartial trial in the court in which suit, or action, issue or
petition, presentment or indictment is pending, or when the
Judges of said court shall be disqualified under the provisions
of this Constitution to sit in any such suit, action, issue or

*Thus amended by Act of 1880, cil 117, ratified by the people at November election, 1881.