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, t the Fourth; the comities 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 comity 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 jurisdic-

tion, original and appellate, which the present Circuit Courts

of this State now have and exercise, or which may hereafter
be prescribed by law.
Truett vs. Legg, 32 Md., 147.

SEC. 21. For each of the said circuits (excepting the
eighth and third) there shall be a chief judge and two asso-
ciate judges, to be styled Judges of the Circuit Court to be
elected or appointed as herein provided, and for the third cir-
cuit there shall be a Chief Judge and. three associate judges
to. be styled Judges of the Circuit Court to be elected or ap-
pointed as herein provided.

And no two of said associate judges for any of the said cir-
cuits, except the third circuit shall, at the time of their elec-
tion 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 in any of the circuits, except the third circuit,
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 in any of the circuits, except
the third circuit, 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 lie 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 Cir-
cuit Court in each of the counties composing their respective

circuits, at such times as are now or may hereafter be pre-
scribed to which jurors shall be summoned; and. in those coun-
ties where only two such terms are held, two other and. inter-
mediate 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

t Garrett termed since the adoption of this Constitution.