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law, and therefore I would assume a public general law.
Yes. I think that would be true. I don't think that
they would have to establish the same number of commissioners
in each area, no more than they would have to determine the
same number of judges in each area.
As you know, the legislature decides on how
many judges there will be in each specific area,
and certainly in my opinion, and in the opinion of the
minority, they can also decide on how many commissioners
there will be in each and every area.
THE CHAIRMAN: Any further questions?
Delegate Rush.
DELEGATE RUSH: Delegate Johnson, yesterday
there was a statement made by Delegate Bradshaw that
the cost of revising for salaries alone in the judicial
system in the State of Maryland would cost the State
approximately $25U,OOU.
As I am told, in 1959, if we had discarded
the magistrate court system and then moved into the munici-
pal court system, which they have there now as moving up
to the district court level, the difference in cost I am