COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		(2) Whenever a vacancy shall occur in
		said Court (other than in an original term
		or other than upon expiration of a term),
		for any cause, the Governor shall appoint
		to said Court a Judge who shall hold office
		under such appointment until the thirty-
		first day of December immediately following
		the first Congressional election occurring at
		least one year after the date of his appoint-
		ment.
		(3) In order to qualify for election or
		re-election a candidate shall file a certificate
		of candidacy with the Supervisors of
		Elections of Baltimore City not later than
		midnight of the day which is ten weeks or
		seventy days prior to the day on which the
		primary election should be held.
		(4) The names of all candidates for
		judge of the Municipal Court created herein
		shall be placed in the voting machines with-
		out any party label or other distinguishing
		mark or location which might directly or
		indirectly indicate the party affiliation of
		any such candidate.
		(5) When a vacancy shall exist in the
		Chief Judgeship of said Court, the Gover-
		nor may designate an Associate Judge of said
		Court as Chief Judge, and such appointee as
		Chief Judge shall continue as such for the
		residue of the term for which he was
		originally appointed or subsequently elected.
		Art. XV, sec. 9. The term of office of
		all Judges and other officers, for whose
		election provision is made by this Constitu-
		tion, shall except in cases otherwise ex-
		pressly provided herein, commence from
		the time of their Election; and all such
		officers shall qualify as soon after their
		election as practicable, and shall enter upon
		the duties of their respective offices im-
		mediately upon their qualification; and the
		Term of office of the State Librarian and of
		the Commissioner of the Land Office shall
		commence from the time of their appoint-
		ment.
	Section 5.23. Judicial Retirement.	Sec. 3. The Judges of the said several
	Each judge shall retire at the age of seven-	Courts other than the Court of Appeals or
	ty. If a majority of the members of the	any intermediate courts of appeal shall,
	Court of Appeals approve, the chief judge	subject to the provisions of Section 5 of this
	may authorize a retired judge to perform	Article of the Constitution, be elected in
	temporarily judicial duties in any court.	Baltimore City and in each county, by the
		qualified voters of the city and of each
		county, respectively, except that in the First
		and Second Judicial Circuits the said Judges
		of the several Courts shall be elected by the
		qualified voters in each respective Judicial
		Circuit as hereinafter provided, all of the

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