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the minority report, my remarks on Section 5.01.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any questions of the
minority spokesman with respect to Section 5.01 to Sec-
tion 5.11? If not. Delegate Bradshaw.
DELEGATE BRADSHAW: I would like to ask Dele-
gate Johnson whether or not his proposal would permit
continuation of the present system of appointing magis-
trates and judges of lower courts.
DELEGATE JOHNSON: To that I will answer abso-
lutely not. If we are going to have a unified District
Court, which I believe we all understand to be the lowest
court, on the lowest level, this would seem to me to
clearly do away with the Magistrate Court system as we have
it today. In other words, in the minority view it would
be impossible, I submit unconstitutional, to provide for
a major straight type court in some small county and not
provide for it in another county. We do not think this
can be done when you have a unified judicial system.
In other words, if your District Court system
is going to be uniform throughout the state and if that
is in fact the lowest court on the level from the