670 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 4, Sec. 20]
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. 20. 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. 20. 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,
authority and jurisdiction, original and appellate, which
the present Circuit Courts of this State now have and exer-
cise, or which may hereafter be prescribed by law.
The several judges of the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County on and after the Tuesday next after the first Mon-
day in November, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, shall
each, alternately and in rotation and on schedules to be
established by the said judges, sit as an Orphans' Court
for said County, and shall have and exercise all the power,
authority and jurisdiction which the present Orphans'
Courts 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
'This amendment was submitted by Chapter 744, Acts of 1963, to be voted upon
by the voters in .November 1964.
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