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 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.

SEC. 21. For each of the said circuits (excepting the
eighth and third) there hall 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
appointed as herein provided.

And no two of said associate judges for any of the said
circuits, except the third circuit 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 coun-
ty. 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 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 cir-
cuit 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 re-
spective circuits, at such times as are now or may hereafter
be prescribed to which jurors shall be summoned; and in
those counties where only two such terms are held, two other
and intermediate terms, to which jurors shall not be sum-
moned ; 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
the jury shall be, as far as practicable, disposed of at said
intermediate terms.

One judge in each of the above circuits, including the third
circuit, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any