CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
	District Court
	Section 5.10. Jurisdiction.	Art. IV, Sec. 41 A....... [People's Court
	The District Court shall have the original	of Baltimore City] Said Court shall have
	jurisdiction prescribed by law. Jurisdiction of	such jurisdiction (which may be made
	the District Court shall be uniform through-	exclusive as to any class or classes of civil
	out the State.	cases in Baltimore City), with such right of
		appeal, therefrom, and the Chief Judge and
		Associate Judges thereof shall have such
		powers and duties, as the General Assembly
		shall prescribe from time to time by Law.
		The Judges of said Court shall have full
		power to regulate by rules the administra-
		tion, procedure and practice of said Court;
		such rules shall have the force of law until
		rescinded or modified by said Judges or
		the General Assembly. Unless otherwise
		provided by Law, (1) all powers granted
		by this section or by Law to said Court
		or the Judges thereof as a body may be
		exercised by a majority of the Judges
		thereof, and (2) said Court shall not be
		a Court of Record.......
		Sec. 41B(2). . . . [People's Court in
		Counties & Towns] The jurisdiction of any
		such Court (which may be made exclusive
		as to any class or classes of civil cases in
		such county, or any part thereof, city or
		town) and the right of appeal there-
		from; .....
		Sec. 41C(c) . . . [Municipal Court in
		Baltimore City] The jurisdiction of said
		Court shall consist originally of the juris-
		diction vested on the day immediately
		preceding the first Monday of May, 1961,
		in the Justices of the Peace of Baltimore
		City, including the Police Magistrates, the
		Chief Police Magistrate of Baltimore City,
		the Magistrates-at-Large of Baltimore City,
		and the Traffic Court of Baltimore City,
		and thereafter shall consist of such greater
		or lesser jurisdiction (which may be made
		exclusive as to any class or classes of
		cases), with such right of appeal therefrom,
		as the General Assembly shall prescribe
		from time to time by Law.......
		(e) After the day immediately preceding
		the first Monday in May, 1961, no Justice
		of the Peace of Baltimore City, including
		the Police Magistrates of Baltimore City, the
		Chief Police Magistrate of Baltimore City,
		the Magistrates-at-Large for Baltimore City.
		the Magistrates of the Traffic Court of
		Baltimore City, and the Chief Magistrate of
		the Traffic Court of Baltimore City, shall
		exercise any of the jurisdiction, or have any
		of the powers or duties conferred on the
		Court herein created.

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