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effort to gain higher salaries as a result of this new

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Constitution. And to circumvent any such possibility, we

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have added a sentence to Section 30 -- on Amendment. 13 it; is

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listed as subparagraph (e) -- which says, "In establishing

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a uniform scale of judicial salaries and pensions, including

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those for the District Court, the General Assembly may

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disregard any local supplementation or local salary or

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pension authorized after January 1, 1968," so in establish-

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ing the uniform system it will have to be done in accordance

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with the salaries in existence on January 1.

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This primarily is what we hope to do in substi-

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tution for Section 21 in the Transitional Legislation, and

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that is all that we would propose to do with Section 21, 22

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and 23.

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Section 22 deals with judicial pensions and 23

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deals with the pensions of spouses.

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We took cognizance of the fact that Section 10.0]

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of the General Provisions Article which we have passed says

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that all existing statutory law in existence when this new

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Constitution is promulgated, that statutory law will re-

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main in effect and therefore the judicial pension system in