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, ^hen it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new
election for such unfilled office or offices. From and after
December 1, 1954, there shall be not less than two judges
resident in Anne Arundel County, and not less than three
judges resident in Baltimore County. From and after De-
cember 1, 1960, there shall be not less than four judges
resident in Prince George's County. From and after Decem-
ber 1, 1960, there shall be not less than five judges resident
in Montgomery County.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article the
vacancy in Montgomery County created by the adoption of
this amendment shall not be filled by appointment as pro-
vided in Section 5 of this Article, but at the first biennial
general election for Representatives in Congress, after the
adoption of this amendment a judge shall be elected by the
qualified voters of Montgomery County to fill such vacancy
in such county. Any other vacancy in the office of Judge of
the Circuit Court for Montgomery County and any vacancy
in the second judicial circuit shall be filled as provided in
Sections 3 and 5 of this Article, except that the person
initially appointed to fill the vacancy in the second judicial
circuit shall be a resident of Kent County.

The said judges shall hold such terms of the Circuit Court
in each of the counties composing their respective circuits,
at such times as are now prescribed or may hereafter be