800 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 494

by the Court without a jury before a judge or judges other
than the judge issuing the citation. If the constructive
contempt is committed while all the judges of the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City are sitting en bane, or while all
the judges of any circuit are sitting en bane, the person
alleged to be in contempt shall have the right to have the
case removed to another circuit or court for trial. Upon
appeal to the Court of Appeals, in cases of both direct and
constructive contempts, the Court of Appeals shall con-
sider and pass upon the law and the facts and said Court
shall make such order as to it may seem proper, including
the right to reverse or modify the order appealed from. In
all such cases, it shall ba the duty of the State's Attorney,
either personally or by deputy or assistant, to prosecute
such contempts as though the same were criminal cases.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1st, 1941.

Approved April 23, 1941.

CHAPTER 494.
(Senate Bill 229)

AN ACT to amend Section 21 of Article 4, title "Judiciary
Department", sub-title "Part III—Circuit Courts", of the
Constitution of this State, providing for the residential
qualification and method of selection of Associate
Judges in the Third Judicial Circuit and to provide for
the submission of said amendment to the qualified voters
of this State for adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That (three-fifths of all members elected to each
of the two houses concurring) the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to Section
21 of Article 4, of the Constitution of Maryland, title
"Judiciary Department", sub-title "Part III—Circuit
Courts", the same, if adopted by the legal and qualified
voters thereof as herein provided to become Section 21
of Article 4 of the Constitution of the State of Maryland.

21. For each of the said circuits, excepting the eighth,
the second, the third, the sixth and the seventh
there shall be a chief judge and two associate judges, to
be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be selected or