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.

1 Md. 368.

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.

1852, ch. 82.

Sec. 18. The Court of Appeals shall hold its sessions in
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.
18 Md., 202.

Sec. 19. The jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals shall
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, but 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-
ment or submission of the cause, and the judgment of the
Court shall be final and conclusive.

Salary.

Sec. 21. The salary of the Justices of the Court of
Appeals shall be three thousand dollars, each per annum,
payable quarterly.

Reports to be pub-
lished.

1852, ch. 55 & 351.
1854, Res. 5.

Sec. 22. Provision shall be made by law for publishing
reports of all causes argued and determined in the Court
of Appeals, which the Justices shall designate as proper
for publication.