150 court of appeals of maryland

judges, and to secure some measure of it were
willing to have judicial terms made long. The
vote for adoption of the system of elections was
49 to 23.

It was further decided that thenceforth there
should be only one Court of Appeals for the
whole state, to sit at Annapolis, on the Western
Shore, and that this court and the trial courts
should have separate judges, or justices,—both
words were used—the Court of Appeals no longer
to be made up of chief judges of the trial courts.
Four justices from as many districts of the state
were to be elected to the Court of Appeals, one
to be chosen by the people in each district The
counties on the Western Shore principally north
of a line drawn east and west through Baltimore
City were to constitute the first district; counties
south of that line, the second district; Baltimore
City, then newly erected into a separate juris-
diction, the third district; and the Eastern Shore
counties, the fourth district. Another grouping
was to be made of trial courts for the selection
of trial judges, and the groups were to be called
by the name, then new in Maryland, "circuits."
There were to be eight of these: the first,
of St. Mary's, Charles, and Prince George's
County; second, of Anne Arundel, Howard
(newly erected), Calvert and Montgomery; third,
of Frederick and Carroll; fourth, of Washington
and Allegany; fifth, of Baltimore City; sixth of
Baltimore, Harford and Cecil Counties; seventh,
of Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot, and Caroline;
and eighth, of Dorchester, Somerset and Wor-
cester counties. These circuits were to have one