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respective counties, all the power, authority and jurisdiction,
original and appellate,. which the present Circuit Courts of this
State now have and exercise, or which may hereafter be prescribed
by law.

CHIEF JUDGE AND TWO ASSOCIATES—RESIDENCE—CASE OF

TIE—TWO TERMS A YEAR—INTERMEDIATE

TEEMS—SPECIAL TERMS.

SEC. 21. 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, to be elected or appointed,
as herein provided. 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. If two or more persons shall be candidates
for associate judge, in the same county, that one only in said

county shall be declared elected who has the highest number of
votes in the circuit. In case any two candidates for associate judge,
residing in the same county, shall have an equal number of
votes, greater than any other candidate for associate judge, in
the circuit, it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new
election for one associate judge; but the person residing in any
other county of the circuit and who has the next highest number
of votes shall be declared elected. The said judges shall hold not
less than two terms of the circuit court in each of the counties
composing their respective circuits, at such times as are now, or
may hereafter, be prescribed, to which jurors shall be sum-
moned; and in those counties where only two such terms are
held, two other and intermediate terms, to which jurors shall not
be summoned; they may alter or fix the times for holding any
or all terms until otherwise prescribed, and shall adopt rules to
the end that all business, not requiring the interposition of a
jury, shall be, as far as practicable, disposed of at said interme-
diate terms. One judge, in each of the above circuits, shall con-
stitute 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 discretion, the business of the several

counties renders such terms necessary.

POINTS RESERVED TO BE HEARD IN BANC—RIGHT OF APPEAL

NOT PRECLUDED—NOT TO APPLY TO APPEALS FROM

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CERTAIN

CRIMINAL CASES.

SEC. 22. When any term is held, or trial conducted, by less
than the whole number of said circuit judges, upon the decision
or determination of any point or question, by the court, it