1712                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 791

the full Court of seven judges shall be granted to the losing party
upon application as a matter of right.

[14B. Eligibility of member of General Assembly for appointment
as judge of intermediate court of appeal.]

[No member of the General Assembly at which the addition of
Section 14A was proposed, if otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible
for appointment or election as a judge of any intermediate court of
appeal, established by law by the General Assembly pursuant to said
Section 14A, by reason of his membership in such General Assem-
bly.]

Part III—Circuit Courts

21. Number, eligibility, [election or] appointment and terms of
judges; residence requirements; chief judge and associate
judges; quorum; terms of court; effect upon other provisions.

From and after January 1,1955, there shall be in the third, fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh circuits at least one judge for each county,
who shall be a resident of the county in which he shall hold office,
[and who shall be elected by the voters thereof,] to be styled judges
of the Circuit Court [, to be elected or appointed as herein pro-
vided]. The number of judges for any of the circuits or for any of
the counties, may be increased or decreased by the General Assembly
from time to time, and any vacancy so created shall be filled as pro-
vided 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 on] appointment, or during their [the] terms [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 candidate 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 county, and also the candidate or candidates resid-
ing in some other county, and not similarly disqualified, who shall
have the next highest number of votes in said election. If, by reason
of such a condition or by reason of an equal vote for two or more