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time, in any action at law, before the jury retire to consider
their verdict, or in a suit in equity, before the final decree is
signed, be removed by an order in writing signed by the judge
or judges there presiding, to such proper court or docket,
either of equity or law, in the same county or city, as the
nature thereof may require, and thereupon such proceedings
shall be had by amendment of the pleadings and otherwise, as
shall conform the case to the course of the court to which the
same shall have been removed under such general or special
rules as each of such courts may prescribe for the adjustment
of costs, the prevention of delay and the promotion of justice.
Brehm v. Sperry, Jones & Co., 92 Md. 408. Summerson v. Schilling, 94
Md. 607. Ins. Co. v. Schall, 96 Md. 226.

Salaries of Judges.

1892, ch 388.

46. The salary of each chief judge of the first seven judi-
cial circuits and of the judge of the court of appeals from
Baltimore city and of the several judges of the supreme bench
of Baltimore city shall be four thousand five hundred dollars,
and of each associate judge of the first seven judicial circuits
shall be three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, payable
quarterly.

Pensions of Judges.

1904, ch. 236.

46. Every judge of the circuit court for any of the coun-
ties, and of the supreme bench of Baltimore city, and of the
court of appeals, who shall attain the age of seventy years
while in office, after having served the ten preceding consecu-
tive years, and every judge of any of said courts who shall
have served upon the bench fifteen consecutive years, whether
such service be before or after April 7, 1904, or partly before
or partly after said date, and who shall have reached the age
of seventy, and every person who has heretofore been elected
and has served as judge of any of said courts, and is now no
longer in office and has attained the age of seventy years, or if
not now seventy years of age, when he shall attain said age,
shall be entitled to a salary of twenty-four hundred dollars per
annum, payable in quarterly instalments, as other judges'
salaries are now paid.