tute the First Circuit; the Counties of Caroline, Talbot,
Queen Anne's, Kent and Cecil, the Second; the Counties
of Baltimore and Harford, the Third; the Counties of
Allegany, Washington and Garrett,* 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 Baltimore City, the Eighth.

SEC. 20. 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,
authority and jurisdiction, original and appellate, which the
present Circuit Courts of this State now have and exercise,
or which may hereafter by prescribed by Law.

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 elec-
ted 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, the 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 Asso-
ciate Judge in the Circuit, it shall be the duty of the Gov-
ernor 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, compos-
ing 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

*Garrett formed since the adoption of this Constitution,