48 CONSTITUTION OF THE [ART. 4.

Arundel, Calvert, Prince George's and Montgomery Coun-

ties, shall compose the Fifth District, and one of the Jus-

tices of the Court of Appeals shall be elected from each of

said districts, by the qualified voters of the whole State.

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The present Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the

Court of Appeals shall continue to act as such until the

expiration of the term for which they were respectively

elected, and until their successors are elected and qualified;

and an election for a Justice of the Court of Appeals, to

be taken from the Fourth Judicial District, shall be held

on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month

of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

Two Sessions,
April and October.

SEC. 18. The Court of Appeals shall hold its sessions in

1852, ch. 82.

the City of Annapolis, on the first Monday in April and

the first Monday of October, of each and every year, or at

such other times as the General Assembly may by law

direct, and it shall be competent for the Justices of said

Court, sufficient cause appearing to them, temporarily to

transfer their sittings elsewhere.

Jurisdiction

SEC. 19. The jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals shall

18 Md, 202.

be co-extensive with the limits of the State, and such as

now is or may hereafter be prescribed for it by law, and its

Sit ten months.

sessions shall continue for not less than ten months in the

year, if the business before it shall so require.

Three Judges a
Quorum,

SEC. 20. Any three of the Justices of the Court of

Appeals may constitute a quorum, bat no cause shall be

decided without the concurrence of at least three Justices

Opinion to be filed
in three months.

in the decision; and in every case decided an opinion in

writing shall be filed within three months after the argu-

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ment or submission of the cause, and the judgment of the

Court shall be final and conclusive.

Hilary.

SEC. 21. The salary of the Justices of the Court of

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Appeals shall be three thousand dollars, each per annum,

payable quarterly.

Reports to be pub-
lished

SEC 22 Provision shall be made by law for publishing

1832, ch 55 & 351.

reports of all causes argued and determined in the Court

1854, Res. 5.

of Appeals, which the Justices shall designate as proper

for publication.