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by a miiftMr of the minority, that the
rea»<»n w provided for functional divisions was to peratit
soroe flexibility in particularly urban areas where it
would be important in the coimittee's view to have a civil
jurisdiction and a criminal jurisdiction.
You can do that in Baltimore City and some other
urban areas but you need not do that perhaps in Talbot
County or some other small county*
DELEGATE JOHNSON i So although you can answer
part of the problem by functional division, in our view
you could not take care of the possibility of the need for
creation of a tax court unless you provided for tax court
jurisdiction in every district court or superior court
in the state. That would be the same way with the court
of claims. It would be the same way with a labor court,
because if you are going to have a uniform- judicial court
system, then the jurisdiction has to be uniform.
We are in favor of that, but we think these
special courts ought to be provided for if they are needed
and that we should not tie the legislature hands in
creating them if the need arises.
THE CHAIRMAN i Delegate Harrove.
DELEGATE HARGROVE: Delegate Johnson, by