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Associate Justices of the Court of Appeals shall continue to
act as such until the expiration of the term for which they
were respectively elected, and until their successors are elected
and qualified; and an election for a Justice of the Court of
Appeals, to be taken from the fourth Judicial District, shall
be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the
month of November, eighteen hundred sixty four.

Sec. 18. The Court of Appeals shall hold its sessions in
the city of Annapolis, on the first Monday in April, and
the first Monday in October, of each and every year, or at
such other times as the General Assembly may by law direct,
and it shall be competent for the Justices of said Court, suffi-
cient cause appearing to them, temporarily to transfer their
sittings elsewhere.

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Sec. 19. The jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals, shall be
co-extensive with the limits of the State, and such as now is
or may hereafter be prescribed for it by law, and its sessions
shall continue for not less than ten months in the year, if the
business before it shall so require.

Sec. 20. Any three of the Justices of the Court of Appeals
may constitute a quorum, but no cause shall be decided with-
out the concurrence of at least three Justices in the decision,
and in every case decided, an opinion in writing shall be filed
within three months after the argument or submission of the
cause, and the judgment of the Court shall be final and con-
clusive.

Sec. 21. The salary of the Justices of the Court of Appeals
shall be three thousand dollars, each per annum, payable
quarterly.

Sec. 22. Provision shall be made by law for publishing re-
ports of all causes argued and determined in the Court of
Appeals, which the Justices shall designate as proper for
publication.

Sec. 23. The Court of Appeals shall appoint its own Clerk,
. who shall hold his office for six years, and may be re-ap-
pointed at the end thereof, be shall be subject to removal by
the said Court for incompetency, neglect of duty, misdemean-
or in office, or such other cause or causes as may be prescribed
by law.

PART III.
Circuit Courts.

Sec. 24. The State shall be divided into thirteen Judicial
Circuits, in manner following: The counties of St. Mary's
and Charles, shall constitute the first Circuit; the counties