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tion for the Court of Appeals. And finally the
provision for the court emerged, and was adopted,
as it now stands in the constitution. A first circuit
was to be made up of the counties of Worcester,
Somerset, Dorchester and Wicomico (newly con-
stituted) ; a second of Caroline, Talbot, Queen
Anne's, Kent and Cecil; a third of Baltimore and
Harford; a fourth of Allegany, Washington and
Garrett; a fifth of Carroll, Howard and Anne
Arundel; a sixth of Montgomery and Frederick; a
seventh of Prince George's, Charles, Calvert and
St. Mary's; and an eighth of Baltimore City. One
chief judge and two associate judges were to be
provided for each county circuit, and the chief
judges of all of those circuits together with
a judge to be elected from Baltimore City as
the eighth circuit, for appellate work only,
were to constitute the Court of Appeals.¹⁰ The
judge from Baltimore City, it was directed,
should perform such additional duties as the Gen-
eral Assembly should prescribe. The regular place
of sessions was again fixed at Annapolis, and it was
expressly required that the sessions should con-
tinue not less than ten months in the year if the
business before the court required it. Four judges
were now made a quorum. The court was no
longer to appoint its own clerk; that officer was
henceforth, by section 17 of the article, made elec-
tive, to be voted for by all voters of the state. The
arrangement of terms of court, one in April and
one in October, was continued as it had been fixed
in the constitution of 1864.

10. Constitution of 1867. Article IV. sec. 14.