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The Annotated Code of the Public Civil Laws of Maryland, 1911
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ART. IV] JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT. 77

Sec. 28. The Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court of
Common Pleas, and the Baltimore City Court++ shall each have con-
current jurisdiction in all civil common law cases, and concur-
rently all the jurisdiction which the Superior Court of Baltimore
City and the Court of Common Pleas now have, except jurisdiction
in Equity, and except in applications for the benefit of the Insolvent
Laws of Maryland, and in cases of Appeal from judgments of Justices
of the Peace in said city, whether civil or criminal, or arising under
the ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, of all of
which appeal cases the Baltimore City Court shall have exclusive
jurisdiction; and the said Court of Common Pleas shall have exclusive
jurisdiction in all applications for the benefit of the Insolvent Laws of
Maryland, and the supervision and control of the Trustees thereof.

Sec. 29. The Circuit Court of Baltimore City shall have exclusive
jurisdiction in Equity within the limits of said city, and all such juris-
diction as the present Circuit Court of Baltimore City has; provided,
the said Court shall not have jurisdiction in applications for the writ
of habeas corpus in cases of persons charged with criminal offenses.

Sec. 30. The Criminal Court of Baltimore shall have and exercise
all the jurisdiction now held and exercised by the Criminal Court of
Baltimore, except in such Appeal Cases as are herein assigned to the
Baltimore City Court.

Sec. 31. There shall be elected by the legal and qualified voters of
said city, at the election, hereinbefore provided for, one Chief Judge
and four Associate Judges, who, together, shall constitute the Supreme
Bench 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 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 diminshed nor increased during the
continuance of said Judges in office.

Sec. 32. It shall be the duty of the said Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City, as soon as the Judges thereof shall be elected and duly
qualified, and from time to time, to provide for the holding of each of
the aforesaid 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 assignment, as circumstances
may require, and the public interest may demand; and the Judge or

++The Jurisdiction of the Baltimore City Court, the Superior Court and the
Court of Common Pleas was enlarged by the Act of 1870, Ch. 177.

*Increased by Act of 1892, Ch. 388, to four thousand five hundred dollars. See
also Act of 1908, Ch. 180.

 

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