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608 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 4, Sec. 19] absence of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals the provisions of this Section shall be applicable to the senior judge present. The powers of the Chief Judge under the aforegoing provisions of this section shall be subject to such rules and regulations, if any, as the Court of Appeals may make. The Court of Appeals from time to time shall make rules and regulations to regulate and revise the prac- tice and procedure in that Court and in the other courts of this State, which shall have the force of law until re- scinded, changed or modified by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law. The power of the courts other than the Court of Appeals to make rules of practice and procedure shall be subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law. Part III—Circuit Courts. ^ SEC. 19. The State shall be divided into eight Judicial Circuits, in manner following, viz.: The Counties of Wor- cester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Dorchester, shall consti- 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 exer- cise, in the respective counties, all the power, authority and jurisdiction, original and appellate, which the present Cir- cuit Courts of this State now have and exercise, 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 Orphan's (3) 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. i Tiros amended by Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified November 6, 1956. 'Thus amended by Chapter 744, Acts of 1963, ratified November 3, 1964, • Thus in the original, |
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