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Sec. 20. A Court shall be held in each County of the State, to be
styled the Circuit Court for the County in which it may be held. The
said Circuit Courts shall have and exercise, in the respective Counties,
all the power, authority and jurisdiction, original and appellate, which
the present Circuit Courts of this State now have and exercise, or which
may hereafter be prescribed by Law.

Sec. 21. For each of the said Circuits (excepting the Eighth) there
shall be a Chief Judge and two Associate Judges, to be styled Judges
of the Circuit Court, to be elected or appointed as herein provided.
And no two of said Associate Judges 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 County. If two or more
persons shall be candidates for Associate Judge in the same County,
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 Associate Judge, residing in the same County, shall have an equal
number of votes, greater than any other candidate 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
County of the Circuit, and who has the next highest number of votes,
shall be declared elected. The said Judges shall hold not less than two-
terms of the Circuit Court in each of the Counties composing their
respective Circuits, at such times as are now, or may hereafter be pre-
scribed, to which Jurors shall be summoned; and in those Counties
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, until otherwise prescribed, and shall
adopt rules to the end that all business not requiring the interposition
of a Jury shall be, as far as practicable, disposed of at said inter-
mediate terms. One Judge in each of the above Circuits shall consti-
tute a 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 discretion, the business of the several Counties renders such Terms
necessary.

Sec. 22. Where any Term is held, or trial conducted by less than
the whole number of said Circuit Judges, upon the decision or determi-
nation of any point or question by the Court, it shall be competent
to the party against whom the ruling or decision is made, upon motion,
to have the point or question reserved for the consideration of the three
Judges of the Circuit, who shall constitute a Court in banc for such
purpose; and the motion for such reservation shall be entered of record
during the sitting at which such decision may be made; and the
several Circuit Courts shall regulate by rules, the mode and manner
of presenting such points or questions to the Court in banc, and the
decision of the said Court in banc shall be the effective decision in
the premises, and conclusive, as against the party at whose motion
said points or questions were reserved; but such decision in banc shall