to that office, his appointment shall be for the balance of the
term for which he had theretofore been elected.. The judges so
appointed from the First, Second, and Third Appellate Judicial
Circuits shall cease to be Chief Judges of their respective Cir-
cuits. Any elected Judges from Circuits, except the Eighth
Circuit, in office on December 31, 1944, other than the three
designated by the Governor as Judges of the Court of Appeals,
shall be additional Judges of the Court of Appeals and shall
continue to be Chief Judge of their respective Circuits and
shall hold office for the residue of the terms for which they
were elected. No successor to any such additional Judge shall
be appointed or elected as Judge of the Court of Appeals or
(except as provided in Section 21 of this Article) as Judge of
his Circuit, but any such additional Judge shall be eligible to
appointment as the member of the Court of Appeals from his
respective Appellate Judicial Circuit. Any vacancy in any
Appellate Judicial Circuit shall be filled by designation by the
Governor of one of the additional Judges from such Appellate
Judicial Circuit, if any, to hold office for the residue of the term
for which he was originally elected. Upon his appointment or
designation as a member of the Court of Appeals from his Ap-
pellate Judicial Circuit, such additional Judge shall cease to
be the Chief Judge of his Circuit. The Judges of the Court of
Appeals shall be elected by the qualified voters of their respec-
tive Appellate Judicial Circuits, their terms to begin on the date
of their qualification. One of the judges of the Court of Appeals
shall be designated by the Governor as the Chief Judge. The
jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals shall be co-extensive with
the limits of the State and such as now is or may hereafter be
prescribed by law. It shall hold its sessions in the City of
Annapolis on the second Monday in January in the year 1945,
and thereafter at such time or times as it shall from time to
time by rule prescribe. Its session or sessions shall continue
not less than ten months in each year, if the business before it
shall so require, and it shall be competent for the judges tem-
porarily to transfer their sittings elsewhere upon sufficient
cause. The salary of each judge of the Court of Appeals shall
be that now or hereafter prescribed by the General Assembly
and shall not be diminished during his continuance in office.
When the number of judges shall have become reduced to five,
three of the judges shall constitute a quorum, and the con-
currence of a majority of a quorum shall be sufficient for the
decision of any cause.

This amendment was submitted by Chapter 772 of the Acts of 1913 and
will be voted upon by the people in November, 1944..

ARTICLE IV, SECTION 18A
Sec. 18A. The General Assembly shall provide by General