or elected as Judge of the Court of Appeals or (except as
provided in Section 21 of this Article) as Judge of his Cir-
cuit, but any such additional Judge shall be eligible to ap-
pointment 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 resi-
due of the term for which he was originally elected. Upon
his appointment or designation as a member of the Court
of Appeals from his Appellate Judicial Circuit, such addi-
tional 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 respective Appellate Judicial Cir-
cuits, their terms to begin on the date of their qualification.
One of the judges of the Court of Appeals shall be desig-
nated 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 pre-
scribed by law. It shall hold its sessions in the City of An-
napolis 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 con-
tinue not less than ten months in each year, if the business
before it shall so require, and it shall be competent for the
judges temporarily 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 concurrence of a majority of a quorum
shall be sufficient for the decision of any caused.

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 argu-
ment or submission 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
reports of all causes argued and determined in the Court.

1 Thus amended by Chapter 772, of the Acts of 1943, and ratified by the
people in November, 1944..