The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-10-24

Judges shall at all times be bona fide
residents of Baltimore County, and
one of said Associate Judges or the
Chief Judge be a bona fide resident of
Hartford County, and that said Judges
shall have been such residents six
months prior to their appointment or
election, said Section as amended to
read as follows:
81. For each of the said circuits,
excepting the eighth, the second, the
third and the sixth, there shall be a
chief judge and two associate judges,
to be styled judges of the Circuit
Court, to be selected or appointed as
herein provided, and for the second
circuit, the third circuit and the sixth
circuit there shall be chief judge
and three associate judges to be styled
| judges of the Circuit Court, to be
elected or appointed as herein provid-
ed. And no two Of said associate
judges, for any of the said circuits,
except the third and sixth circuits
shall, at the time of their election or
appointment or during the term for
which they may have been elected
or appointed, reside in the same coun-
| ty. If two or more persons shall be
candidates for associate judge in the
same county in any of the circuits,
except the third and sixth circuits,
that one only in said county shall be
declared elected who has the highest
number of votes in the circuit. In
case any two candidates for associ-
ate judge in any of the circuits, ex-
cept the third and sixth circuits, re-
siding in the same county shall have
an equal number of votes greater than
any other candidates for associate
judge in the circuit, it shall be the
duty of the Governor to order a new
| election for one associate Judge; but
the person residing in any other coun-
| ty of the circuit and who has the high
est number of votes shall be declared
elected. The said judges shall hold
not less than two terms of the Cir
cult Court in each of the counties COM
posing their respective circuits, at
such times as are now or may here
after be prescribed to which jurors
shall be summoned; and in those coun-
ties where only two such terms are
held two other and intermediate
terms, to which jurors shall not be
summoned; they may alter or fix the
| times for holding any or all terms, I'M
til otherwise prescribed, and shall
adopt rules to the end that all bust
ness not requiring the interposition of
the jury shall be, as far as practicable,
disposed of at said intermediate
terms. One judge in each of the above
circuits, including the second, the
third and the sixth circuits, shall con-
stitute quorum for the transaction
of any business; and the said judges
or any of them may hold special terms
of their courts, whenever in their dis
erection the business of the several
counties renders such terms neces-
sary.
In the Third Circuit, two of said AS
sociate Judges shall at all times be
bona fide residents of Baltimore Coun-
ty, and one of said Associate Judges
or the Chief Judge be a bona fde resi-
dent of Hartford County, and said
Judges shall have been such resi-
dents six months prior to their ap-
pointment or election.
The additional associate judge for
the second circuit herein provided for
shall be resident of Cecil County,
shall be appointed by the Governor
! after the expiration of six CO. months
after the adoption Of this amend
ment and shall serve until the first
general election for members of the
! General Assembly that shall be held
in said circuit subsequent to the adop-
ton of this amendment, at which cleo
ton his successor shall be elected by
the qualified voters of Caroline, &C.
Gil, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot
Counties, constituting the second cir
cult. The judge so appointed shall be
| subject to the same constitutional
provisions, receive the same compen-
sation and have the same powers as
are herein provided for the other as
sociate judges in the second circuit,
and the Judge so elected shall be sub
ject to the same constitutional pro-
vision, hold his office for the same
term of years, receive the same COM
| pensation, and have the same powers
as are herein provided for the other
associate judges in the second circuit.
The additional judge for the sixth
circuit herein provided for and elected
by the qualified voters of Frederick
and Montgomery Counties at the 1888
election in accordance with the terms
of the Constitutional Amendment
heretofore submitted and adopted
shall be subject to the same constitu-
tional provisions, receive the same
compensation and have the same pow
ers as are herein provided for the
other associate judges in the sixth
circuit and his successor shall be APP
pointed and/or elected in accordance
with the constitutional provisions re-
lating to judges. The Chief Judge may
be elected from either Frederick or
| Montgomery Counties, but when the
Chief Judge is elected from Frederick
| County one of the associate judges
shall be resident of said county and
the two remaining associate judges
shall be residents of Montgomery
County and when the Chief Judge is
elected from Montgomery County one
of the associate judges shall be res
ident of said Montgomery County and
the remaining two associate judges
residents of Frederick County. In case
any candidate or candidates for asso-
ciate judge at any judicial election held
in the third and sixth judicial circuits
/ 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 associate judges than
herein permitted to reside in any
county of said circuits, then and III
that event only that candidate or those
candidates, as the case may be, re-
siding in said county in the order of
| the votes received shall be declared