tute the First Circuit; the Counties of Caroline, Talbot,
Queen Anne's, Kent and Cecil, the Second; the Counties of
Baltimore and Harford, the Third; the Counties of Alle-
gany, Garrett, and Washington, 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. 2O. 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, authori-
ty and jurisdiction, original and appellate, which the pres-
ent Circuit Courts of this State now have and exercise, or
which may hereafter be prescribed by Law.

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 four
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