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.*

SEC. 15. Four of said judges shall constitute a quorum;
no cause shall be decided without the concurrence of at least
three; but the judge who heard the cause below shall not
participate in the decision; in every case an opinion, in writing,
shall be filed within three months after the argument or sub-
mission of the cause; and the judgment of the court shall be
final and conclusive; and all cases shall stand for hearing at the
first term after the transmission of the record.

SEC. 16. Provision shall be made by law for publishing re-
ports of all causes argued and determined in the Court of
Appeals, which the judges shall designate as proper for pub-
lication.

SEC. 17. There shall be a Clerk of the Court of Appeals, who,
after the expiration of the current term of the present incum-
bent, shall be appointed by and shall hold his office at the
pleasure of said Court of Appeals'

SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of the Judges of the Court of
Appeals, as soon after their election under this Constitution
as practicable, to make and publish rules and regulations for

* Thus amended by Chapter 772, of the Acts of 1943, and ratified by the people in Novem-
ber, 1944.

(i) This amendment wag submitted by Ch. 40, 1939, and adopted by the people November,
1940.