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Again ladies and gentlemen of the committee,
may I direct your attention to the Section 5.01 through
5.11 dealing with court structure.
Here the Committee on the Judicial Branch
accepted its first challenge, that is, accepted the re-
sponsibility of upgrading the courts of limited jurisdic-
tion in the State of Maryland* It is generally recognized
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and I believe there is no dissent in the state, that to
improve administration of justice in our great state the
first responsibility is to improve it at the level dealing
with the greatest number of people.
Our supporting memorandum has ample facts and
figures to convince you we hope that at this level of
our present court system there is chaos, to say the least.
May I call your attention to a release in the
ptM over the weekend in which a judge, an apparently
part-time judge in Baltimore County actually cried for
help with respect to his court calendar and court facility
in that great section of our state.
For those of you who may not have seen the
counent in the press the facts were,as I recall, that