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judicial work and business of each of the judges and their
respective courts. He may, in case of a vacancy, or of the
illness, disqualification or other absence of a judge or for
the purpose of relieving an accumulation of business in any
court assign any judge except a judge of the Orphans' Court
to sit temporarily in any court except an Orphans' Court.
Any judge assigned by the Chief Judge of the Court of
Appeals pursuant to this section [shall have] HAS all the
power and authority pertaining to a judge of the court to
which he is so assigned; and his power and authority shall
continue with respect to all cases (including any motion, or
other matters incidental thereto) which may come before him
by virtue of such assignment until his action thereon shall
be completed. In the absence of the Chief Judge of the
Court of Appeals, the provisions of this section shall be
applicable to the senior judge present in [said] THE Court
of Appeals. The powers of the Chief Judge [under the
aforegoing provisions of] SET FORTH IN this section shall be
subject to [such rules and regulations, if any, as] ANY RULE
OR REGULATION ADOPTED BY the Court of Appeals [may make].
20.
(A) [A Court shall be held in each County of the State
to be styled the Circuit Court for the County, in which it
may be held.] THERE SHALL BE A CIRCUIT COURT FOR EACH
COUNTY AND FOR BALTIMORE CITY. The [said] Circuit Courts
shall have and exercise, in the respective counties, AND
BALTIMORE CITY, all the power, authority and jurisdiction,
original and appellate, which the [present] Circuit Courts
of [this State now have and exercise, or which may] THE
COUNTIES EXERCISED ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THESE
AMENDMENTS, AND THE GREATER OR LESSER JURISDICTION hereafter
[by] prescribed by law.
(B) The [several] judges of the Circuit Courts for
Montgomery and Harford Counties shall each, alternately and
in rotation and on schedules to be established by those
judges, sit as an Orphans' Court for their County, and shall
have and exercise all the power, authority and jurisdiction
which the present Orphans' Courts now have and exercise, or
which may hereafter be [prescribed] PROVIDED by law.
23.
The Judges of the respective Circuit Courts of this
State[, and of the Courts of Baltimore City,] shall render
their decisions, in all cases argued before them, or
submitted for their judgment, within two months after the
same shall have been so argued or submitted.
25.
There shall be a Clerk of the Circuit Court for each
County AND BALTIMORE CITY, who shall be elected by a
plurality of the qualified voters of said County OR CITY,
and shall hold his office for four years from the time of
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