104 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND [Art. 4]

Amendment heretofore submitted and adopted shall be subject to the same
constitutional provisions, receive the same compensation and have the
same powers as are herein provided for the other associate judges in the
sixth circuit and his successors shall be appointed and/or elected in accor-
dance with the constitutional provisions relating to judges. The Chief
Judge may be elected from either Frederick or Montgomery Counties,
but when the Chief Judge is elected from Frederick County one of the
associate judges shall be a resident of said county and the two remaining
associate judges shall be residents of Montgomery County and when the
Chief Judge is elected from Montgomery County one of the associate
judges shall be a resident of said Montgomery County and the remain-
ing two associate judges residents of Frederick County. In case any can-
didate or candidates for associate judge at any judicial election held in
the sixth judicial circuit shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candi-
date or candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candi-
date or candidates would cause more associate judges than herein per-
mitted to reside in any county of said circuit, then and in that event only
that candidate or those candidates, as the case may be, residing in said
county in the order of the votes received shall be declared elected whose
election would provide the permitted number of associate judges from
said county and the candidate or candidates, as the case may be, residing
in the other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall have the next
highest number of votes in said election shall be declared elected. If, by
reason of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more
candidates a sufficient number of associate judges duly qualified as to resi-
dence as above set out should not be elected at any election in said sixth
judicial circuit, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new
election for such unfilled office or offices.

The additional associate judge for the seventh circuit herein provided
for shall be appointed by the Governor immediately after the adoption
of this amendment and shall serve until the first general election for
members of the General Assembly that shall be held in said circuit sub-
sequent to the adoption of this amendment, at which election his successor
shall be elected by the qualified voters of Prince George's, Charles, Cal-
vert and St. Mary's Counties. No member of the General Assembly of
1939, otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible for appointment or election
as such associate judge by reason of his membership in the General Assem-
bly. The judge so appointed shall be subject to the same constitutional
provisions, receive the same compensation and have the same powers as
are herein provided for the other associate judges in the seventh circuit,
and the judge so elected and his successors shall, subject to the same con-
stitutional provisions, hold office for the same term of years, receive the
same compensation, and have the same powers as are herein provided for
the other associate judges in the seventh circuit. No two of the associate
judges for the seventh circuit shall at the time of their election or appoint-
ment or during the term for which they may have been elected or appointed
reside in the same county, except in Prince George's County, in which
county two of said associate judges for the said circuit shall reside at
the time of their appointment, or election and during the term for which
they may have been appointed or elected unless the chief judge of said
circuit shall already reside in said county, in which event only one of said
associate judges shall reside in Prince George's County and Prince
George's County shall at all times have two resident Judges and no more,