deem advisable. It shall also be the duty of said Judges of the
Court of Appeals, as soon after their election as practicable, to
devise and promulgate by rules or orders, forms and modes of
framing and filing bills, answers and other proceedings and
pleadings in equity; and also forms and modes of taking and
obtaining evidence, to be used in equity cases; and to revise
and regulate, generally, the practice in the Courts of Equity of
this State, so as to prevent delays, and to promote brevity and
conciseness in all pleadings and proceedings therein, and to
abolish all unnecessary costs and expenses attending the same.
And all rules and regulations hereby directed to be made shall,
when made, have the force of law until rescinded, changed or
modified by the said judges or the General Assembly.

Part III..Circuit Courts.

SEC. 19. The State shall be divided into eight judicial cir-
cuits, in manner following, viz.: The counties of Worcester,
Somerset, Dorchester and Wicomico,* shall constitute the
First Circuit; the counties of Caroline, Talbot, Queen Anne's.
Kent and Cecil, the Second; the counties of Baltimore and Har-
ford, the Third; the counties of Allegany, Washington and
Garrett,t 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 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,
the second, the third (and) the sixth and the seventh, there
shall be a chief judge and two associate judges, to be styled
judges of the Circuit Court, to be selected or appointed as
herein provided, and for the second circuit, the third circuit,
(and) the sixth circuit, and the seventh circuit, 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 and sixth and seventh circuits shall, at the

* Wicomico formed since the adoption of this Constitution.
t Garret formed since the adoption of this Constitution.