Appellate Judicial Circuit, the Governor shall designate the
member of the Court of Appeals from that Appellate Ju-
dicial Circuit from among the appointed members of the
Court of Appeals from that Appellate Judicial Circuit. If
any Judge so appointed shall be a member of the Court of
Appeals as of December 31, 1944, by virtue of having been
elected to that office, his appointment shall be for the bal-
ance 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 Circuits. Any elected Judges from Cir-
cuits, 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 Cir-
cuit, but any such additional Judges shall be eligible to ap-
pointment as the member of the Court of Appeals from his
respective Appelate 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