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Sec. 15. Four of said judges shall constitute a quorum;
no cause shall be decided without the concurrence of at
least three.
Sections 16 and 17 are not of general interest.
Sec. 18. The State shall be divided into eight judicial
circuits, in manner following, viz: The counties of Wor-
cester, Somerset, Dorchester and Caroline shall constitute
the first circuit; the counties of Talbot, Queen Anne's,
Kent and Cecil the second; the counties of Baltimore and
Harford the third; the counties of Allegany and Wash-
ington the fourth; the counties of Carroll, Howard and
Anne Arundel the fifth; the counties of Montgomery and
Frederick the sixth; the counties of Prince George's,
Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's the seventh and Balti-
more city the eighth.
Sec. 19. A court shall be held in each county of the
State, to be styled the Circuit Court for the county in
which it may be held. The said Circuit Courts shall have
and exercise in the respective counties all the power, au-
thority and jurisdiction, original and appellate, which the
present Circuit Courts of this State now have and exer-
cise, or which may hereafter be prescribed by law.
Sec. 20. For each of the said circuits (excepting the
eighth) there shall be a chief judge and two associate
judges, to be styled judges of the Circuit Court; and no
two of said associate judges shall, at the time of their
election or appointment, or during the term for which
they may have been elected or appointed, reside in the
same county. The said judges shall hold a term of the
Circuit Court in each of the counties composing their re-
spective circuits at such time or times as now are or may
hereafter be fixed by law, such terms not to be less than
two in each year. One judge in each of the above cir-
cuits shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any
business; and the said judges, or any of them, may hold
special terms of their courts whenever, in their discre-
tion, the business of the several counties renders such
terms necessary.
Sec. 21. 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
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