76 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. IV

not preclude the right of appeal or writ of error to the adverse party
in those cases, civil or criminal, in which appeal or writ of error to the
Court of Appeals may be allowed by law. The right of having ques-
tions reserved shall not, however, apply to trials of Appeals from judg-
ments of Justices of the Peace, nor to Criminal cases below the grade
of felony, except when the punishment is confinement in the peniten-
tiary; and this section shall be subject to such provisions as may here-
after be made by law.

Sec. 23. The Judges of the respective Circuit Courts of this State,
and of the Courts of Baltimore City, shall render their decisions in
all cases argued before them, or submitted for their judgment, within
two months after the same shall have been so argued or submitted.

Sec. 24. The salary of each Chief Judge, and of the Judge of
the Court of Appeals from the City of Baltimore, shall be three thou-
sand five hundred dollars, and of each Associate Judge of the Circuit
Court, shall be two thousand eight hundred dollars per annum payable
quarterlv, and shall not be diminished during his continuance in
office.*

Sec. 25. 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, 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, subject to be removed for wilful neglect of duty or other mis-
demeanor in office, on conviction in a Court of Law. In case of a
vacancy in the office of Clerk of a Circuit Court, the Judges, of said
Court shall have power to fill such vacancy until the general election
for Delegates to the General Assembly, to be held next thereafter,
when a successor shall be elected for the term of six years.

Sec. 26. The said Clerks shall appoint, subject to the confirmation
of the Judges of their respective Courts, as many deputies under them
as the said Judges shall deem necessary to perform, together with
themselves, the duties of the said office, who shall be removable by
the said Judges for incompetency, or neglect of duty, and whose com-
pensation shall be according to existing or future provisions of the
General Assembly.

Part IV.—Courts of Baltimore City.

Sec. 27. There shall be in the Eighth Judicial Circuit six Courts,
to be styled the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the Superior Court
of Baltimore City, the Court of Common Pleas, the Baltimore City
Court, the Circuit Court of Baltimore Cityf and the Criminal Court++
of Baltimore.

*By the Act of 1892, Ch. 388. the salary of the Chief Judges was increased to
four thousand five hundred dollars, and of the Associate Judges to three thousand
six hundred dollars per annum. See also act of 1908, ch. 180.

+Cricuit Court No. 2 established by Act of 1888, Ch. 194.

++Criminal Court No. 2 established by rule of the Supreme Bench, December
21, 1897. See Jackson v. State, 87 Md. 191.