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I understand your reference to the interiRediftte
court relieving some burden on the Court of Appeals, but
at some future date night it not be well to have this
flexibility in the Constitutionso that with the chief
judge devoting a great deal of his time to administrative
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duties, it might be better to be able to increase the
number of judges on the highest court?
DHLEGATE MUDD; In our view. Delegate Singer,
the flexibility there is increasing the jurisdiction and
manpower of the Intermediate Appellate Court.
We have a four-tier system with two Appellate
Courts and two Trial Courts. By fixing the number of
judges of the highest court at seven, obviously that
does limit the amount of work that court can handle, but
by leaving the Intermediate Appellate Court flexible as tc
jurisdiction and as to manpower, we feel that can be the
shock absorber, so to speak, to pick up the increase or,
as the circumstances may require, to increase its juris-
diction and thereby relieve the court of last resort.
Do I make it clear?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bushong.