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discretion, whenever the business of their several counties
renders such terms necessary.

Present Judges
continued in office.

Sec. 27. The present Judges of the Circuit Courts shall
continue to act as Judges of the respective Circuit Courts
within the Judicial Circuits in which they respectively re-
side, until the expiration of the term for which they were
respectively elected, and until their successors are elected
and qualified, viz: the present Judges of the First, Second,
Third, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Judicial Circuits, as
organized at the time of the adoption of this Constitution,
shall continue to act as Judges respectively of the First,
Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Twelfth Judicial Cir-

New Judges to be
elected.

cuits, as organized under this Constitution; and an elec-
tion for Judges of the Third, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,
Tenth and Eleventh Judicial Circuits shall be held on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of
November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

Salary, $2,500.

Sec. 28. The salary of each Judge of the Circuit Court
shall be twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, payable
quarterly, and shall not be increased or diminished during
his continuance in office.

Clerks.
1853, ch. 134.
11 Md. 296.

Sec. 29. There shall be a Clerk of the Circuit Court for
each county, who shall be elected by a plurality of the
qualified voters of said county; he shall hold his office for

Term six years,

the term of six years from the time of his election, and
until a new election is held and his successor duly quali-

Re-eligible,

9 Md. 242.
1852, ch. 173 & 308.
1853, ch. 134, 409,
444.
1858, ch. 363.

fied; he shall be re-eligible at the end of his term, and
shall at any time be subject to removal for willful neglect of
duty, or other misdemeanor in office, on conviction in a
court of law. In the event of any vacancy in the office of

Vacancy.
1 Md. 374.
11 Md. 101.

the Clerk of any of the Circuit Courts, said vacancy shall
be filled by the Judge of said Circuit in which said va-
cancy occurs, until the next general election for county
officers, when a Clerk of said Circuit Court shall be elected
to serve for six years thereafter.

Decisions within
two months.

Sec. 30. The judges of the respective Circuit Courts of
this State, and of the Courts of Baltimore city, shall ren-
der their decisions in all cases argued before them, or sub-