106 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND [Art. 4]

In the Third Circuit, two of said Associate Judges shall at all times
be bona fide residents of Baltimore County, and one of said Associate
Judges or the Chief Judge be a bona fide resident of Harford County,
and said Judges shall have been such residents six months prior to their
appointment or election.

The additional associate judge for the second circuit herein provided
for shall be a resident of Cecil County, shall be appointed by the Governor
after the expiration of six (6) months after the adoption of this amend-
ment and shall serve until the first general election for members of the
General Assembly that shall be held in said circuit subsequent to the
adoption of this amendment, at which election his successor shall be
elected by the qualified voters of Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's and
Talbot Counties, constituting the second circuit. 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 second circuit, and the judge so elected shall
be subject to the same constitutional provision, hold his 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 second circuit.

The additional judge for the sixth circuit herein provided for and
elected, by the qualified voters of Frederick and Montgomery Counties at
the 1938 election in accordance with the terms of the Constitutional
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 successor shall be appointed and/or elected in accordance
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 remaining two associate
judges residents of Frederick County. In case any candidate or candidates
for associate judge at any judicial election held in the third and sixth
judicial circuits shall receive sufficient votes to cause such candidate or
candidates to be declared elected, but the election of such candidate or
candidates would cause more associate judges than herein permitted to
reside in any county of said circuits, 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 candi-
dates a sufficient number of associate judges duly qualified as to residence
as above set out should not be elected at any election in said third and sixth
judicial circuits, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to order a new
election for such unfilled office or offices. ]¹

¹ This amendment, providing that one Judge in Third Circuit must be a resident of
Harford County, was submitted by ch. 371, 1939, and will be voted upon by the people
in Nov. 1940.