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respectively of the first, second, fourth, fifth, ninth and
twelfth Judicial Circuits, as organized under this Constitu-
tion; and an election for Judges of the third, sixth, seventh,
eighth, tenth and eleventh Judicial Circuits shall be held on
Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, eighteen
hundred, and sixty-four; "

Mr. Parran submitted the following amendment to the
amendment:

Insert after the word "elected, " in the fifth line the words
"or until they shall have attained the age of seventy years; "

Decided in. the negative.

The question recurring upon the adoption of the amend-
ment submitted by Mr. Hebb,

It was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Thomas submitted the following amendment:

Insert as an additional section the following:

"Sec. —. The present Judges of the several Courts of Bal-
timore city shall continue to act as such until the expiration
of the terms for which they were respectively elected, and
until their successors are elected and qualified; "

Decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Hebb moved to reconsider the vote by which section
twenty-four was adopted:

Decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Hebb submitted the following amendment:

Sec. 24, line five, strike out the words "for members of the
General Assembly thereafter, " and insert "thereafter wheth-
er for members of the General Assembly or for county officers,
whichever shall first occur; "

Decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Hebb submitted the following amendment:

Insert; as section thirty-eight the following:

"Sec. 38. In the event of a vacancy in the office of a Jus-
tice of the Peace, the Governor shall appoint a person to
serve as Justice of the Peace for the residue of the term; and
in case of a vacancy in the office of Constable, the County
Commissioners of the county in which the vacancy occurs,
or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as the case may