shall make rules and regulations to regulate and revise the
practice and procedure in that Court and in the other courts of
this State, which shall have the force of law until rescinded,
changed or modified by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by
law. The power of the courts other than the Court of Appeals
to make rules of practice and procedure shall be subject to the
rules and regulations prescribed by the Court of Appeals or
otherwise by law.

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, 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. From and after January 1, 1945, there shall be at
least three judges for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth,
sixth, and seventh circuits, to be styled judges of the Cir-
cuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. In
any of said circuits in which there shall be more than three
judges (including the additional judge of the Court of Ap-
peals), no successor to the additional judge of the Court of
Appeals shall be appointed or elected as judge of said circuit.
In any of said circuits in which there shall be only three judges
(including an additional judge of the Court of Appeals), a
successor to the additional judge of the Court of Appeals
shall be appointed and elected as judge of said circuit. The
aforesaid number of judges for any of the circuits shall be sub-
ject to increase or decrease by law as provided in Section 5
of this Article. The senior judge in length of service shall be
the chief judge of the circuit (unless there is an additional

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