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I think generally what we are talking about
when we talk about a unified system is a reform generally
of the lowest court system.
We of the majority did not go about this report
in a very haphazard manner. We had the benefit of many,
many studies. I would only suggest, in addition to what
Delegate Hodge Smith has said, that one of our delegates,
Delegate Case, made a complete study, the Commission made
a complete study of the inferior court system in this
state and recommended to the state the thing which the
majority report suggests.
However, there is one other area which I would
like to point out. This is in the area of procedure.
As you go around the State of Maryland, from the
Superior Court and into the lower courts, the procedure
for trying cases, the jurisdiction, the monetary juris-
diction, varies from county to county, from say $100 to
$3,000. A lawyer who practices law in the State of
Maryland, all he has to do in many areas, such as from
Baltimore County, from Baltimore City to Anne Arundel
County and the various counties,step over an inaginary