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or by the Governor upon the address of the General Assem
bly, two-thirds of the members of each House concurring in such
address; and the salary of each of the Judges of the court of Ap
peals shall be two thousand five hundred dollars annually, and
shall not be increased or diminished during their continuance in
office; and no fees or perquisites of any kind, shall be allowed
by law to any of the said judges.

SEC. 5. No Judge of the Court of Appeals shall sit in any case
wherein he may he interested, or where either of the parties may
he connected with him by affinity or consanguinity within such
degrees as may be prescribed by law, or when he shall have been
of counsel in said case; when the court of appeals, or any of
its members shall he thus disqualified to hear and determine any
case or cases in said court, so that by reason thereof no judgment
can be rendered in said court, the same shall be certified to the
Governor of the State, who shall immediately Commission the
requisite number of persons learned in the law for the trial and
determination of said case or cases.

SEC. 6. All Judges of the court of appeals, the circuit courts,
and of the courts for the city of Baltimore, shall by virtue of
their offices, be conservations of the peace throughout the State.
SEC. 7. All public commissions and grants shall run thus
"The State of Maryland," &c., and shall be signed by the Go
vernor, with the seal of the State annexed; all writs and pro
cesses shall tun in the same style, and be tested, sealed and
signed as usual; and all indictments shall conclude "against the
peace, government and dignity of the State"
SEc. 8. The State shall be divided into eight Judicial Cir
cuits, in manner and form following, to wit: St. Mary's, Charles
and Prince George's counties shall be the first; Anne Arun.
del, Howard, Calvert and Montgomery counties shall be the
second; Frederick and Carroll counties shall be the third;
Washington and Allegany counties shall be the fourth; Balti
more city shall he the fifth; Baltimore, Harford and Cecil coun-
ties shall be the sixth; Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot and Caro
line counties shall be the seventh; and Dorchester, Somerset
and Worcester counties shall be the eighth; and there shall be
elected as hereinafter directed for each of the said Judicial
Circuits, except the fifth, one person from among those learned in
the law, having been admitted to practice in this State, and who
shall have been a citizen of this State at least five years, and
above the age of thirty years at the time of his election, and a resi
dent of the Judicial Circuit, to be Judge thereof; the said
judges shall be styled Circuit Judges, and shall respectively
hold a term of their courts at least twice in each year, or oftener
if required by law, in each county composing their respective
circuits; and the said courts shall be called Circuit Courts for the
county in which they may be held, and shall have, and exer
cise in the several counties of this State, all the power, authority