CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	conviction in a Court of Law. The salary
	of each of the said Clerks shall be payable
	as provided in Section 45 of Article 3 of this
	Constitution, and they shall be entitled to
	no other perquisites, or compensation. In
	case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk of
	any of said Courts, the Judges of said
	Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall have
	power to fill such vacancy until the general
	election of Delegates to the General Assem-
	bly, to be hdd next thereafter, when a Clerk
	of said Court shall be elected to serve for
	four 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. 38. The Clerk of the Court of	See those provisions of the proposed constitu-
	Common Pleas shall have authority to issue	tion applicable to the Superior Court.
	within said city, all marriage and other
	licenses required by Law, subject to such
	provisions as are now, or may be prescribed
	by Law. The Clerk of the Superior Court
	of said city shall receive and record all
	Deeds, Conveyances, and other papers,
	which are, or may be required by Law, to be
	recorded in said City. He shall also have
	custody of all papers connected with the
	proceedings on the Law, or Equity side of
	Baltimore County Court, and of the
	Dockets thereof, so far as the same have
	relation to the City of Baltimore, and shall
	also discharge the duties of Clerk to the
	Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, unless
	otherwise provided by Law.
	Sec. 39. The General Assembly shall, as	See those provisions of the proposed constitu-
	often, as it may think the same proper and	tion applicable to the Superior Court.
	expedient, provide by Law for the election
	of an additional Judge of the Supreme Bench
	of Baltimore City, and whenever provision
	is so made by the General Assembly, there
	shall be elected by the voters of said City
	another Judge of the Supreme Bench of
	Baltimore City, who shall be subject to the
	same constitutional provisions, hold his
	office for the same term of years, receive
	the same compensation and have the same
	powers as are, or shall be provided by the
	Constitution, or Laws of this State, for the
	Judges of said Supreme Bench of Baltimore
	City, and the General Assembly may pro-
	vide by Laws, or the Supreme Bench by its
	rules, for requiring causes in any of the
	Courts of Baltimore City to be tried before
	the Court without a jury, unless the litigants
	or some one of them shall within such
	reasonable time or times as may be pre-

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