elected by the qualified voters of Prince George's, Charles,
Calvert and St. Mary's Counties. No member of the General
Assembly of 1939, otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible for
appointment or election as such associate judge by reason of
his membership in the General Assembly. The judge so ap-
pointed shall be subject to the same constitutional provisions,
receive the same compensation and have the same powers as
are herein provided for the other associate judges in the
seventh circuit, and the judge so elected and his successors shall
be subject to the same constitutional provisions, hold office for
the same term of years, receive the same compensation, and
have the same powers as are herein provided for the other as-
sociate judges in the seventh circuit. No two of the associate
judges for the seventh 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, except in
Prince George's County, in which county two of said associate
judges for the said circuit shall reside at the time of their ap-
pointment or election and during the term for which they may
have been appointed or elected unless the chief Judge of said
circuit shall already reside in said county, in which event only
one of said associate judges shall reside in Prince George's
County and Prince George's County shall at all times have
two resident Judges and no more, such Judges to be either
the Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit and one associate
Judge or two associate Judges of said Circuit. In case any
candidate or candidates for associate judge at any judicial elec-
tion held in the seventh judicial circuit shall receive sufficient
votes to cause such candidate or candidates to be elected, but
the election of such candidate or candidates would cause more
associate judges than herein permitted to reside in any county
of said circuit, then and in that event only that candidate or
those candidates, as the case may be, residing in said county
in the order of the votes received shall be declared elected
whose election would provide the permitted number of associ-
ate judges from said county and the candidate or candidates,
as the case may be, residing in some other county, and not
similarly disqualified, who shall have the next highest number
of votes in said election shall be declared elected. If, by reason
of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or
more candidates a sufficient number of associate judges duly
qualified as to residence as above set out should not be elected
at any election in said seventh judicial circuit, then it shall
be the duty of the Governor to order a new election for such
unfilled office or offices.

SEC. 22. Where 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