ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1155

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 forty-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.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That the said foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution shall at the next election for
members of Congress to be held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in the month of November, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty (1920), be submitted to the legal and quali-
fied voters thereof for their adoption or rejection, in pursu-
ance of the direction contained in Article 14 of the Constitution
of this State; and at the said election the vote on said proposed
amendment to the Constitution shall be by ballot and upon
each ballot there shall be written or printed the words "For
Constitutional Amendment" and "Against Constitutional
Amendment," as now provided by law, and immediately after
said election due returns shall be made to the Governor of
the vote for and against said proposed amendment, as directed
by the said Article 14 of the said Constitution.

Approved April 9, 1920.

CHAPTER 566.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 8
of Chapter 23 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1892.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Section 8 of Chapter 23 of the Acts of the General Assembly