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adopted by the legally qualified voters of the State, as
herein provided, to become a part of the Constitution of
Maryland:
Article IV - Judiciary Department
5.
Upon every occurrence or recurrence of a vacancy
through death, resignation, removal, disqualification by
reason of age or otherwise, or expiration of the tera of
fifteen years of any judge OF A CIRCUIT COURT OR OF THE
SUPREME BENCH OF BALTIMORE CITY, or creation of the
office of any SUCH judge, or in any other way, the
Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified to fill
said office, who shall hold the same until the election
and qualification of his successor; except that when a
vacancy shall exist in the office of Chief Judge of the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the Governor may
designate an Associate Judge of said Supreme Bench as
Chief Judge of said Supreae Bench, and such appointee as
Chief Judge shall hold such office for the residue of the
term for which he was last elected an Associate Judge of
said Supreme Bench. His successor shall be elected at
the first biennial general election for Representatives
in Congress after the expiration of the term of fifteen
years (if the vacancy occurred in that way) or the first
such general election after one year after the occurrence
of the vacancy in any other way than through expiration
of such term. Except in case of reappointment of a judge
upon expiration of his term of fifteen years, no person
shall be appointed who will become disqualified by reason
of age and thereby unable to continue to hold office
until the prescribed time when his successor would have
been elected.
11.
The election for Judges, hereinbefore provided, and
all elections for Clerks, Registers of Wills, and other
officers, provided in this Constitution, except State's
Attorneys, shall be certified, and the returns Bade, by
the Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the Counties, and the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city,
respectively, to the Governor, who shall issue
commissions to the different persons for the offices to
which they shall have been, respectively, elected; and in
all such elections FOR OFFICERS OTHER THAN JUDGES OF AN
APPELLATE COURT, the person having the greatest number of
votes, shall be declared to be elected.
14.
The Court of Appeals shall be composed of seven
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