CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		said Judges to be elected at the general
		election to be held on the Tuesday after the
		first Monday in November, as now provided
		for in the Constitution. Each of the said
		Judges shall hold his office for the term
		of fifteen years from the time of his election,
		and until his successor is elected and quali-
		fied, or until he shall have attained the
		age of seventy years, whichever may first
		happen, and be re-eligible thereto until he
		shall have attained the age of seventy
		years, and not after. In case of the in-
		ability of any of said Judges to discharge
		his duties with efficiency, by reason of con-
		tinued sickness, or of physical or mental
		infirmity, it shall be in the power of the
		General Assembly, two-thirds of the mem-
		bers of each House concurring, with the
		approval of the Governor to retire said
		Judge from office.
	Section 5.24. Judicial Compensation.	Sec. 6. All Judges shall, by virtue of
	Each judge shall be compensated solely by	their offices, be Conservators of the Peace
	the State for his judicial service. The com-	throughout the State; and no fees, or per-
	pensation of a judge shall not be reduced	quisites, commission, or reward of any
	during his continuance in office. Judges of	kind; shall be allowed to any Judge in this
	the same court shall be paid the same com-	State, besides his annual salary, for the
	pensation, including any pension based upon	discharge of any Judicial duty.
	length of service, except that a uniform re- duction in compensation may be made appli- cable to all judges of the same court appointed after the effective date of the re- duction. A pension payable to a retired judge or to his surviving spouse, or to the	Sec. 14..... The salary of each Judge of the Court of Appeals shall be that now or hereafter prescribed by the General Assembly and shall not be diminished dur- ing his continuance in office.......
	surviving spouse of a deceased judge, pur-	Sec. 21....... All salaries now prescribed
	suant to provisions in effect during his con-	by law for associate judges of the Circuit
	tinuance in office, shall not be reduced.	Courts shall continue to apply to all judges
		(including chief judges) of the Circuit
		Court.......
		Sec. 24. The salary of each Chief Judge
		and of each Associate Judge of the Circuit
		Court shall not be diminished during his
		continuance in office.
		Sec. 40..... [Orphans' Court] Each of
		said Judges shall be paid such compensa-
		tion as may be regulated by Law, and to
		be paid by the said City, or Counties,
		respectively.......
		Sec. 31... . . [Judges of the Supreme
		Bench] shall each receive an annual salary
		of three thousand five hundred dollars,
		payable quarterly, which shall not be
		diminished during their term of office; but
		authority is hereby given to the Mayor and
		City Council of Baltimore to pay to each
		of the said Judges an annual addition of
		five hundred dollars to their respective
		salaries: provided, that the same, being

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