COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	The several judges of the Circuit Court
	for Montgomery County on and after the
	Tuesday next after the first Monday in
	November, nineteen hundred and sixty-six,
	shall each, alternately and in rotation and
	on schedules to be established by the said
	judges, sit as an Orphan's Court for said
	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 pre-
	scribed by law.
	Sec. 21. From and after January 1, 1955,	See Section 522, Judicial Term of Office, p.
	there shall be in the third, fourth, fifth,	51.
	sixth and seventh circuits at least one judge for each county, who shall be a resident of	Section 5.09. Composition.
	the county in which he shall hold office,	The Superior Court shall consist of the
	and who shall be elected by the voters	number of judges prescribed by law. The
	thereof, to be styled judges of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein	number shall be allocated among the coun- ties by law. At least one superior court judge
	provided. The number of judges for any	shall reside in each county. Functional divi-
	of the circuits or for any of the counties,	sions of the Superior Court may be estab-
	may be increased or decreased by the	lished in any county.
	General Assembly from time to time, and
	any vacancy so created shall be filled as
	provided in Section 5 of this Article except
	that in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and
	seventh judicial circuits there shall never be
	less than one judge for each county and
	in all of the circuits there shall never be less
	than four for each circuit. The senior judge
	in length of service shall be the chief judge
	of the circuit; the other judge or judges
	shall be associate judges. In the first and
	second judicial circuits no two of said
	judges of the Circuit Court shall at the time
	of their election or appointment, or during
	the term for which they may have been
	elected or appointed, reside in any one
	county, except in Cecil County wherein two
	said judges may reside at one time provided
	that each of the other counties within the
	second judicial circuit shall have at least one
	judge resident therein. In the first and
	second judicial circuits, in case any candi-
	date or candidates for judge at any
	election shall receive sufficient votes to
	cause such candidate or candidates to be
	declared elected, but the election of such
	candidate or candidates would cause more
	judges than herein permitted to reside in
	any county of the circuit, then and in that
	event there shall be declared elected only
	that candidate or those candidates residing
	in said county, in the order of the votes
	received, whose election would provide the
	permitted number of judges from said

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