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In Baltimore, the Federal District Court
for the District of Maryland and the Mary-
land District Court in all probability will
be across the street from each other. It will
cause confusion as to witnesses' excuses, I
thought you mentioned the other District
Court, that sort of thing. I suggest the
name "general court" be used. There used
to be a "general court" in Maryland in
colonial times. It has that tradition. It
seems to me it has the virtue of avoiding
confusion.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any delegate-
Delegate Mudd.
DELEGATE MUDD: Mr. Chairman,
ladies and gentlemen, of course if we con-
sider here by amendment every possible
change of name for these four courts, the
deliberations could go on ad infinitum. I
think this name "general court" was one
not considered in Committee, although we
did spend considerable time in discussing
the names of these courts in the four tiers.
After considerable debate and careful
consideration of all the names suggested,
we adopted the idea of district court for
the court of limited jurisdiction.
Our research indicated that this name
"district court" is in popular and general
use in many states for the courts of limited
jurisdiction and obviously by virtue of that
rather extended use, the conflict has not
resulted which Delegate Fox seems to feel
might develop in Baltimore with respect to
the federal district court.
Therefore, I respectfully urge that this
amendment be rejected.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any other
debgate who desires to speak in favor of
the amendment?
Is there any delegate who desires to
speak in opposition?
Delegate Byrnes, do you desire to speak
in favor of the amendment?
DELEGATE BYRNES: In favor. I had
the opportunity some months ago to work
at the district court level, U. S. District.
I can attest in Baltimore City these is a
great deal of confusion even now. I sug-
gest with respect to the federal system we
ought to give real serious concern to this.
I support the change of the name from
district court. I had never heard of the
term "general", but since it does have the
colonial tradition, it might be well regarded
by this body and I urge it upon you.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Does any other dele-
gate desire to speak in opposition?
Delegate Schneider?
DELEGATE SCHNEIDER: Mr. Chair-
man, I am opposed for the reasons stated
by Chairman Mudd, and because we could
think of a lot of names better than gen-
eral court, it seems to me. We have always
had problems of identification, many courts
use the highest court as "supreme court,"
and they do not worry about the problem
of identification with the U. S. Supreme
Court, and our Court of Appeals has the
same name as the U. S. Court of Appeals.
We are not about to change the name of
the Maryland Court of Appeals because
somebody is liable to head for Washington
or Baltimore or Annapolis or go to Balti-
more rather than Annapolis.
I think we better stick with the names
and not spend all our time on these small
changes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any other dele-
gate desire to speak in favor of the amend-
ment? Any against?
(There was no response.)
Ready for the question?
(Call for the question.)
Sound the quorum bell.
The question arises on adoption of
Amendment No. 11 to Committee Recom-
mendation JB-1. A vote Aye is a vote in
favor of Amendment No. 11. A vote No is
a vote against. Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 36 votes in the affirmative
and 83 in the negative, the motion is lost.
The amendment is rejected.
Are thera any amendments to section
5.09? The Chair hears none.
A re there any amendments to section
5.10?
Delegata Macdonald.
DELEGATE MACDONALD: I have an
amendment, Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: I have it. The pages
will distribute amendment marked AR,
Amendment No. 12. The clerk will read
the amendment.
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