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salary of the judges of the Court of Appeals can in no way

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be decreased and will be maintained as the minimum on the

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implementation of the new uniform judicial salaries system,

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that the present salaries of the Court of Appeals will

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remain as they are and will be maintained as the minimum in

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the new Transitional Provisions. That under the Circuit

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Courts, now the Superior Courts, the Superior Court

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justices would be paid equally to what the highest Circuit

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Court, or the Supreme Court justice in this case, and this

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would be $30,500.

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We completely eliminated any reference to the

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salaries of the District Court. The logic behind this is

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that the District Court does not become implemented until

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1970 and having established a uniform judicial salaries

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system for the three higher courts of the State, we felt that

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we did not go into the area of legislation and legislate

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and leave it to the General Assembly to provide in this

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area.

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Furthermore, we have taken into consideration

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that there may be some subdivisions of the State which under

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existing laws might supplement judicial salaries in an