Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1934-12-07

gible to the position of Associate JUS
tice. The same counties still consti-
tuted the Fourth District.
BY the Act of 1904, it was enacted
that there shall be appointed for each
of the judicial districts three persons
of integrity and sound legal knowledge
residents Of the State of Maryland,
who shall, previous to and during their
acting as judges, reside in the district
for which they shall respectively be
appointed, one of whom shall be sty-
led in the commission Chief Judge,
and the other two Associate Judges,
together with the two Associate
Judges of the district for which they
shall be appointed; and the Chief
Judge, together with the two Asso-
ciate Judges, shall compose the county
courts in each respective district; and
each Judge shall hold his commission
during good behavior, removable for
misbehavior on conviction in a court
of law, or shall be removed by the
Governor, upon the address Of the
General Assembly provided that two
thirds of all members of each house
concur in such address.
BY virtue Of the provisions Of this
Act, William Polk was reappointed
Chief Judge of the Fourth District
on the goth January, 1906, and at the
same time John Done, Of Somerset
County, and James B. Robins, Of Wor-
cester County, were made Associate
Judges. Judge Done had already SER
we'd as Chief Judge of the County
Courts from 1871 to 1899, when he
was made Judge of the General
Court for the Eastern Shore.
Upon the death of Judge Polk in
1912, Judge Done was promoted on the
18th December 1912, and again be-
came Chief Judge, and William Whit
tington, formerly Chief Judge, was
appointed on the goth of the same
month to succeed Done as Associate
Judge.
Judge Done held his last appoint
ment for only short time, and re-
signed in 1914, and on the 18th De-
cember of that year, William Bond,
Martin, was appointed Chief Judge.
Judge Robins died in 1926, and on
the goth October, 1926, Ara Spence,
of Worcester County, was commits
stoned as Associate Judge to succeed
him.
The Bench was then composed of
Martin, Chief, and Wilmington and
Spence, Associates.
William Wilmington, Associate
Judge, died in 1927, and William Tin
gle, of Worcester, was appointed as
his successor on the 9th December,
1927.
William Bond Martin, Chief Judge,
died in 1885, and Associate Judge
Spence was made Chief Judge on the
Goth May, 1885.
Upon the promotion of Judge
Spence to the position of Chief Judge
Brice J. Goldsborough, of Dorcester
County, was on the 18th October, 1885
made Associate Judge.
Firm this time, 1885 until the adopt
ion of the Constitution Of 1851, Judge
Spence continued to serve as Chief
Judge and William Tingle and Brice
]. Goldsborough as Associate Judges
Judge Spence however becoming the
first incumbent under the new con-
stitution Of the office of Circuit
Judge of the Eighth Circuit, composed
of Dorchester, Somerset and Worces-
ter Counties.
Judges in Maryland were the first
time made elective in the Constitution
of 1851. By that instrument the State
was divided into eight Judicial Circuits
with one Judge for each Circuit, ex-
cept the Circuit comprising Baltimore
City. An Independent Court of APP
peals was established, and the term
of office of all judges was made ten
years. The Courts for the several
counties were for the first time called
Circuit Courts.