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as the future indicates the commissioners to be trusted
to do more, this can be given to them by rule without
amendment of the Constitution. Do you have any feelings
about that?
DELEGATE JOHNSON; To answer your first
question, we have not found any State constitution that
provides for appointment by the judiciary of a similar
function, such as commissioner, or for that matter, if it
is analogous, which we think it is, clerks on the lower
court. We have not found any States that provide it.
We have only found a similar system existing in a federal
system.
To answer your second question, we did not disc
this specifically, of course, in our minority meeting,
but it would certainly be my view that I would be in favor
of keeping it general, or perhaps even providing, that is,
the powers of the Commissioners general.
As far as I am concerned, personally, you coulc
say Commissioners may exercise those powers that are pre-
scribed by rule, and I am certainly in favor of the
court having the power to increase the power of the