this amendment, at which election his successor shall be 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 appointed shall be
subject to the same constitutional provisions, receive the same
compensation and have the same powers as are herein pro-
vided for the other associate judges in the seventh circuit, and
the judge so elected and his successors shall, 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 associate judges in
the seventh circuit. No two of the associate judges for the
seventh circuit shall at the time of their election or appoint-
ment 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 appointment
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 election held in the seventh
judicial circuit shall receive sufficient votes to cause such can-
didate or candidates to be elected, but the election of such can-
didate 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 associate 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 elec-
tion 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 resi-
dence 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

* Thus amended by Chapter 494 of the Acts of 1941 and ratified by the people at the
November election, 1942.