CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	of Baltimore City, and shall hold their
	offices for the term of fifteen years, subject
	to the provisions of this Constitution with
	regard to the election and qualifications of
	Judges, and their removal from office, and shall exercise the jurisdiction, hereinafter specified, and shall each receive an annual	See Section 5.14, Eligibility for Nomination and Appointment, p. 47.
	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
	once granted, shall not be diminished, nor increased, during the continuance of said	See Section 5.24, Judicial Compensation, p. 51.
	Judges in office.
	Sec. 31 A. In addition to the authority
	granted to fhe Mayor and City Council of
	Baltimore by the preceding section to pay
	to each of the Judges of the Supreme Bench
	the annual sum of five hundred dollars,
	authority is hereby given to said Mayor and
	City Council to pay to each of said Judges
	such further annual sum as an addition to
	their respective salaries as the Mayor and
	City Council of Baltimore shall from time
	to time deem right and proper, provided,
	that any such sum being once granted shall
	not be diminished during the continuance
	of said Judges in office.
	Sec. 32. It shall be the duty of the said	See Section 5.31, Administration of Judicial
	Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, as soon	System, p. 52.
	as the Judges thereof shall be elected and
	duly qualified, and from time to time, to
	provide for the holding of each of the afore-
	said Courts, by the assignment of one, or
	more of their number to each of the said
	Courts, who may sit either, separately, or
	together, in the trial of cases; and the said
	Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may,
	from time to time, change the said assign-
	ment, as circumstances may require, and the
	public interest may demand; and the Judge,
	or Judges, so assigned to the said several
	Courts, shall, when holding the same, have
	all the powers and exercise all the juris-
	diction, which may belong to the Court so
	being held; and it shall also be the duty of
	the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,
	in case of the sickness, absence, or disability
	of any Judge or Judges, assigned as afore-
	said, to provide for the hearing of the cases,
	or transaction of the business assigned to
	said Judge, or Judges, as aforesaid, before
	some one, or more of the Judges of said
	Court.

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