The Republican., 1942-09-03

judges shall be resident of said NIontgom-
cry County and the remaining two associate
judges residents of Frederick County. In case
any candidate o. candidates for associate
judge at any judicial election held in the
third and sixth judicial circuits shall receive
sufficient votes to cause such candidate or can
didates to be declared elected but the elec-
ton Of such candidate or candidates would
cause more associate judges than herein per
mitted to reside in any county of said circuits
then and in that event only that candidate
or those candidates, the may he,
siding in said county in the order of the
votes received shall be declared elected whose
election would provide the permitted num-
ber of associate Judges from said county and
the candidate candidates the case may
be- residing in the other county. and not sim
ilarly disqualified who shall have the next
highest number of votes in said election shall
be declared elected If by reason of such n
condition or by of equal vote for
two or more candidates a sufficient number of
associate judges duly qualified to residence
as above set out should not be elected at any
election in said third and sixth judicial cir
cults, then it shall be the duty of the Gov
error to order a election for such un-
filled office offices.
The additional associate judge for the sew
enth circuit herein provided for shall be ap-
pointed by the Governor Immediately after the
adoption of this amendment and shall serve
I'until the first general election for members
of the General Assembly that shall be held
in said circuit subsequent to the adoption
of this amendment at which election his sue
| cessor shall be elected by the qualified voters
of Prince Georges, Charles, Calvert and St
| Marys Counties. No member of the General
Assembly of 1889, otherwise qualified, shall
! be ineligible for appointment election as
+ such associate judge by reason of his mem
bership in the General Assembly. The judge
so appointed shall be subject to the same con-
| stitutional provisions, receive the same COM
pensation and have the same powers as are
herein provided for the other associate judges
in the seventh circuit, and the Judge so elected
/ Ehg1l s1IN IN +ba
constitutional provisions, hold office for the
same term of years. receive the same compen-
sation, and have the same powers as are
herein provided for the other associate judges
in the seventh circuit No two of the associ-
ate judges for the seventh circuit shall at the
time of their election appointment or dur
ing the term for which they may have been
elected o. appointed reside in the same coun-
ty, except in Prince Georges County in which
county two of said associate judges for the
said circuit shall reside at the time of their
appointment or election and during the term
for which they may have been appointed or
elected unless the chief judge of said circuit
shall already reside in said county. in which
event only one of said associate judges shall
reside in Prince Georges County and Prince
George 5 County shall at all time have two
resident Judges and no more such Judges to
be either the Chief Judge of the Seventh
Circuit and one associate Judge or two asso-
ciate Judges of said Circuit In case any can
didate or candidates for associate judge at any
judicial election held in the seventh judicial
circuit shall receive sufficient votes to cause
such candidate or candidates to be elected
but the election of such candidate or cand-
dates would cause more associate judges than
herein permitted to reside in any county of
said circuit, then and in that event only that
candidate or those candidates, the case
may be, residing in said county in the order
of the votes received shall be declared elected
whose election would provide the permitted
number of associate judges from said county
and the candidate candidates, as the case
may be, residing in some other county, and
not similarly disqualified. who shall have the
next highest number of votes in said election
shall be declared elected. If, by reason of such
a condition or by reasoon of an equal vote
| ber of associate judges duly qualified as to
| residence as above set out should not be
| elected at any election in said seventh judicial
circuit, then it shall be the duty Of the Gov
ernor to order Il election for such un-
| filled office or offices.
! Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That
the aforegoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of this State
shall be, at the next general election to be
held in this State in the year 1912. submitted
| to the legal and qualified voters thereof for
their adoption or rejection in pursuance of
| directions contained in Article II of the Con-
stitution of this State, and at the said general
election, the vote the said proposed amend
ment shall be by ballot, and upon each bal
lot there shall be printed the words For the
Constitutional Amendment" and Against the
Constitutional Amendment" as now prescribed
by law, and Immediately after said election,
due returns shall be made to the Governor
of the vote for and against said proposed
/ amendment directed by said Article II of
the Constitution.
Approved April %, 194l