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of said Courts, requiring attestation, shall be attested in the
name of the Chief Judge of the said Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City.
Sec. 35. Three of the Judges of said Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City shall constitute a quorum of said Court.
Sec. 36. All causes depending, at the adoption of this Con-
stitution, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court
of Common Pleas, the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and the
Circuit Court of Baltimore City, shall be proceeded in, and
prosecuted to final judgment or decree, in the Courts, respect-
ively, of the same name established by this Constitution,
except cases belonging to that class, jurisdiction over which is
by this Constitution transferred to the Baltimore City Court,
all of which shall, together with all cases now pending in the
City Court of Baltimore, be proceeded in and prosecuted to
final judgment in said Baltimore City Court.
Orrick v. Boehm, 49 Md. 72.
Sec. 37. There shall be a, Clerk of each of the said Courts
of Baltimore City, except the Supreme Bench, who shall be
elected by the legal and- qualified voters of said city, at the
election to be held in said city on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday of November, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, 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 thereto, subject to be removed for
wilful neglect of duty or other misdemeanor in office, on con-
viction in -a Court of Law. The salary of each of the said
Clerks shall be thirty-five hundred dollars a year, payable only
out of the fees and receipts collected by the clerks of said
city, and they shall be entitled to no other perquisites or com-
pensation. In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk of any
of said Courts, the Judges of said Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City shall have power to fill such vacancy until the
general election of Delegates to the General Assembly to be
held next thereafter, when a Clerk of said Court shall be
elected to serve for six years thereafter; and the provisions of
this Article in relation to the appointment of Deputies by the
Clerks of the Circuit Courts in the counties shall apply to the
Clerks of the Courts in Baltimore City.
Wells v Munroe, 86 Md. 450. Vansant v. State, 96 Md 127.
Sec. 38. The Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas shall
have authority to issue within said city all marriage and other
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