The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-09-17


cause more associate judges than herein per-
mtted to reside in any county of said circuits,
then and in that event only that candidate
or those candidates, the case may be, re-
siding in said county in the order of the
votes received shall be declared elected whose
election would provide the permitted num-
Der of associate Judges from said county and
the candidate or candidates as the case may
be, residing in the other county, and not SIM
iiary disqualified who shall have the next
highest number Of votes in said election shall
he declared elected. If by reason of such u
condition by reason of equal vote for
two more candidates sufficient number Of
associate judges duly qualified as to residence
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
err or to order new election for such I'M
filled office or offices.
The additional associate judge for the sew
enth circuit herein provided for shall be APP
pointed by the Governor Immediately after the
adoption of this amendment and shall serve
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
such associate judge by reason of his mem
bership in the General Assembly. The judge
so appointed shall be subject to the same
stitutional provisions, receive the same
pensatiOn and have the same powers
herein provided for the other associate judges
in the seventh circuit, and the judge so elected
and his successors shall subject to the same
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 ~ nDnOintpd reside he
| 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 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
! Georges 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-
| clate Judges of said Circuit. In case any can
| didate 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 candi-
| dates would cause associate judges than
| herein permitted to reside in any county of
said circuit then and in that event only that
candidate those candidates, as 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 or candidates, 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 reason of an equal vote
| for two more candidates a sufficient num-
Der of associate judges duly qualified to
residence above set out should not be
| elected at any election in said seventh judicial
/ pir hon hall ha fbo JI,t,t If he Cav,
ernor to order a new election for such un-
| filed office or offices.
Sec. 3 And be it further enacted, That
| the aforegoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of this State
! shall he, 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
I 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
Z of the vote for and against said proposed
/ amendment as directed by said Article Ii of
| the Constitution.
CHAPTER 500
AN ACT to propose an amendment to Sec
ton IS of Article III of the Constitution
! of the State of Maryland title Legislative
| Department." relating to the salary of
Clerks of Courts and Registrars of Wills and
/ providing for the submission of said amend
ment to the qualified voters of the State of
MARYLAND for adoptiou or rejection.
Section l. BE it enacted bv the General
| Assembly of MARYLAND ,three-ffths of all the
members of each of the Two Houses concur
rinaJ. That The following amendment be and
it is hereby proposcd to Section A. Of Article
1 III of the Constitution of the state of Mary
land. title Legislative Department" the same
, the State. as herein provided to become See
ton As of Article III of the Constitution of