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judges, one from the First Appellate Judicial Circuit
consisting of Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Caroline,
Talbot, Dorchester, Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset
counties; one froi the Second Appellate Judicial Circuit
consisting of Baltimore and Harford counties; one from
the Third Appellate Judicial Circuit, consisting of
Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, Montgomery and Washington
counties; one from the Fourth Appellate Judicial Circuit,
consisting of Prince George's, Calvert, Charles and St,
Mary's counties; one from the Fifth Appellate Judicial
Circuit, consisting of Anne Arundel, Carroll and Howard
counties; and two from the Sixth Appellate Judicial
Circuit, consisting of Baltimore City. The Judges of the
Court of Appeals shall be residents of [and be elected by
the qualified voters of] their respective Appellate
Judicial Circuits, The ten of each Judge of the Court
of Appeals shall begin on the date of his qualification
except that each of the Judges of the Court of Appeals in
office at the time this amendment to the Constitution
takes effect shall continue to hold office for the
balance of the ten for which he was elected or appointed
or until he shall have attained the age of seventy years,
whichever Bay first happen. One of the Judges of the
Court of Appeals shall be designated by the Governor as
the Chief Judge. The jurisdiction of the Court of
Appeals shall be co-extensive vith the limits of the
State and such as now is or lay hereafter be prescribed
by law. It shall hold its sessions in the City of
Annapolis at such time or times as it shall from time to
time by rule prescribe. Its session or sessions shall
continue not less than ten months in each year, if the
business before it shall so require, and it shall be
competent for the judges temporarily to transfer their
sittings elsewhere upon sufficient cause. The salary of
each Judge of the Court of Appeals shall be that now or
hereafter prescribed by the General Assembly and shall
not be diminished during his continuance in office. Five
of the judges shall constitute a quorum, and five judges
shall sit in each case unless the Court shall direct that
an additional Judge or judges sit for any case. The
concurrence of a majority of those sitting shall be
sufficient for the decision of any cause, and an equal
division of those sitting in a case has the effect of
affirming the decision appealed from if there is no
application for re-argument as hereinafter provided. In
any case where there is an egual division or a three to
two division of the Court a reargument before the full
Court of seven judges shall be granted to the losing
party upon application as a matter of right.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, (Three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses
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