154 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. IV

licenses required by law, subject to such provisions as are now
or may be prescribed by Law. The Clerk of the Superior
Court of said city shall receive and record all deeds, convey-
ances and other papers, which are or may be required by Law
to be recorded in said city. He shall also have custody of all
papers connected with the proceedings on the Law or Equity
side of Baltimore County Court and the dockets thereof, so far
as the same have relation to the City of Baltimore, and shall
also discharge the duties of Clerk to the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City unless otherwise provided by Law.
Vansant v. State, 96 Md. 127.

Sec. 39. The General Assembly shall, whenever it may think
the same proper and expedient, provide, by Law, another Court
for the City of Baltimore, and prescribe its jurisdiction and
powers; in which case there shall be elected by the voters of
said City, qualified under this Constitution, another Judge of
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, who shall be subject to
the same constitutional provisions, hold his office for the same
term of years, receive the same compensation, and have the
same powers, as are herein provided for the Judges of said
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City; and all of the provisions
of this Constitution relating to the assignment of Judges to
the Courts, now existing in said City, and for the dispatch of
business therein, shall apply to the Court, for whose creation
provision is made by this Section.* And the General Assem-
bly may reapportion, change or enlarge the jurisdiction of the
several Courts in Baltimore City. Until otherwise provided,
by Law, the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
of the Court of Common Pleas, of the Circuit Court of Balti-
more City, of the Baltimore City Court, and of the Criminal
Court of Baltimore, shall each give Bond in such penalty as is
now prescribed by Law to be given by the Clerks of the
Courts, bearing the same names, under the present Constitu-
tion.

[Sec. 39. The General Assembly shall, as often as it may
think the same proper and expedient, provide by Law for the
election of an additional Judge of the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore City, and whenever provision is so made by the General
Assembly, there shall be elected by the voters of said City
another Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, who
shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold his

*Under this section, the General Assembly, by the Act of 1688, Chapter 194, established
the Circuit Court No 2 of Baltimore City, conferring upon It the same Jurisdiction as
that possessed by the Circuit Court of Baltimore City