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Chief Judges of the Circuits, the Judge of the Court
of Appeals from Baltimore city, and the Judges of
the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city, because their
cases are "specially provided" for in the Constitution
with salaries beyond $3, 000, and so far as the pending
bill is concerned, it could only affect the Associate
Judges of the Circuits.

There can be no reason to suppose that the Consti-
tution intended to discriminate against this class of
the Judiciary in limiting the power of the General
Assembly over their salaries, and not over the salaries
of the other Judges.

Very respectfully yours,

W. A. HAMMOND,
THOMAS S. BAER,
W. T. BRANTLEY,
E. J. D. CROSS,

Committee.

I entirely agree with the views above expressed by
the Committee on the Amendment of the Law.

JNO. T. DONALDSON,
President of the Bar Association

of Baltimore city.
February 29th, 1892..

BALTIMORE, March 1st, 1892.
Hon. James P. Gorter,

Senator, Annapolis, Md.

MY DEAR SIR: — I beg respectfully to state to you
in brief, the grounds on which I came to the conclu-
sion that the Legislature has the Constitutional power
to increase the salaries of the Judges of the Court of
Appeals of Maryland, of the Judges of the Circuit
Court and of the Judges of the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore city.

1. Article 4, section 24, provides that the salary of
each of the Judges of the Court of Appeals shall be
$3, 500, and of each Associate Judge of the Circuit
Courts shall be $2, 800 per annum, and shall not be
diminished during his continuance in office; and sec-
tion 31 of the same Article, provides that each of the
Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city shall
receive an annual salary of $3, 000, which shall not be
diminished during their term of office.