SEC. 13. All Public Commissions and Grants shall run
thus: "The State of Maryland, etc.," and shall be signed by
the Governor, with the Seal of the State annexed; all writs
and process shall run in the same style, and be tested, sealed
and signed, as heretofore, or as may hereafter be, provided
by Law; and all indictments shall conclude, "against the
peace, government and dignity of the State."

1SEC. 13A. The General Assembly shall provide by Gen-
eral Law for the assignment by the Court of Appeals of any
of the Chief Judges and any of the Associate Judges of the
several Judicial Circuits of this State, including any Judge
of the Court of Appeals from Baltimore City, and any of the
Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, to sit in any
other or different Judicial Circuits for designated and limit-
ed periods, for the purpose of relieving accumulation of
business or because of the indisposition or disqualification of
any judge. And any judge so assigned by the Court of Ap-
peals shall have all the power and authority pertaining to
the judge of the court to which he is assigned.

Part II—Court of Appeals.

SEC. 14. The Court of Appeals shall be composed of five
Judges, two from the City of Baltimore; one from the First
Appellate Judicial Circuit, consisting of Cecil, Kent, Queen
Anne's, Caroline, Talbot, Dorchester, Wicomico, Worcester
and Somerset Counties; one from the Second Appellate
Judicial Circuit, consisting of Harford, Baltimore, Anne
Arundel, Prince George's, Charles, Calvert and St. Mary's
Counties; and one from the Third Appellate Judicial Cir-
cuit, consisting of Carroll, Howard, Montgomery, Fred-
erick, Washington, Allegany and Garrett Counties. The
City of Baltimore shall, for the purposes of this section, be
designated as the Fourth Appellate Judicial 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 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

1 Added by Chapter 796, Acts of 1948, ratified Nov. 7. 1944.