[Art. 4, Sec. 21] MARYLAND MANUAL 471

of the other provisions of this Constitution as amended by
any other amendments which may be adopted at the same
time or times as these amendments, i.e., at the election held
in November, 1944, or at the election held in November,
1954, the changes made by these amendments and all such
other amendments to this Constitution shall all be given
effect (1)

[SEC. 21. From and after January 1, 1955, there shall be
in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh circuits at least
one judge for each county, who shall be a resident of the
county in which he shall hold office, and who shall be elected
by the voters thereof, to be styled judges of the circuit
Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided. The
number of judges for any of the circuits or for any of the
counties may be increased or decreased by the General As-
sembly from time to time, and any vacancy so created shall
be filled as provided in Section 5 of this Article except that
in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh judicial circuits
there shall never be less than one judge for each county
and in all of the circuits there shall never be less than three
for each circuit. The senior judge in length of service shall
be the chief judge of the circuit; the other judge or judges
shall be associate judges. In the first and second judicial
circuits no two of said judges of the Circuit Court shall at
the time of their election or appointment, or during the
term for which they may have been elected or appointed,
reside in any one county. In the first and second judicial
circuits, in case any candidate or candidates for judge at
any election shall receive sufficient votes to cause such
candidate or candidates to be declared elected, but the elec-
tion of such candidate or candidates would cause more
judges than herein permitted to reside in any county of the
circuit, then and in that event there shall be declared elected
only that candidate or those candidates residing in said
county, in the order of the votes received, whose election
would provide the permitted number of judges from said
county, and also the candidate or candidates residing in
some other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall
have the next highest number of votes in said election. If,
by reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote
for two or more candidates a sufficient number of judges
duly qualified as to residence shall not be elected at any elec-
tion, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new
election for such unfilled office or offices. From and after

(1) Amended by Chapter 772, Acts of 1943 ratified November 7, 1944. Amended
by Chapter 607, Acts of 1953, ratified November 2, 1954. Also amended by
Chapters 65 and 68, Acts of 1954, both of which were ratified by the voters on
November 2, 1954, becoming immediately null and void by reason of the adoption
of the amendments proposed by Chapter 607 of the Acts of 1953.