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part-time nonlawyer judges, that the fourth tier was
ainost a nust to accommodate the transfer of all of that
judicill activity into a unified uniform integrated court
system, with this further view: that the courts of limits
jurisdiction in Maryland now have varying jurisdictions,
several jurisdictions in some instances being no more than
a hundred to $300, in others $3,000,
Hopefully the legislature would prescribe
jurisdiction for the District Court probably at the top
figure enjoyed by any Peoples' Court. To that extent it
would relieve the case load and constantly increasing case
load at the Superior or Circuit Court level.
Does that answer your question?
DELEGATE CHABOT: I must confess it does not
really, because the same people that you would, it would
seem, unless there is something in it I missed, that the
sane p»opU whoa you would call District Court judges
would handle this complex case load, which is now handled
by the varying courts of limited jurisdiction in the
state, could just as well be separating off and handled
far more flexibly as separate parts of the Circuit Court