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of this section or with any other provision or provisions of
the Constitution of Maryland.
(c) The General Assembly of Maryland, by public local
law, may establish or authorize the establishment of a public
body or agency to undertake in a county or municipal cor-
poration (other than Baltimore City) the activities au-
thorized by this section, and may provide that any or all
of the powers, except the power of taxation, herein au-
thorized to be granted to such county or municipal cor-
poration shall be vested in such public body or agency or in
any existing public body or agency.
(d) The General Assembly may place such other and
further restrictions or limitations on the exercise of any of
the powers provided for in this section, as it may deem
proper and expedient.
(e) The provisions of this section are independent of,
and shall in no way affect, the powers granted under Article
XIB of the Constitution of Maryland, title "City of Balti-
more—Land Development and Redevelopment." Also, the
power provided in this section for the General Assembly
to enact public local laws authorizing any municipal cor-
poration or any county to carry out urban renewal projects
prevails over the restrictions contained in Article IIA
"Local Legislation" and in Article IIE "Municipal Cor-
porations" of this Constitution.^
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ARTICLE IV.
JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT.
Port 1.—General Provisions.
SECTION 1. The Judicial power of this State shall be
vested in a Court of Appeals, Circuit Courts, Orphans'
Courts, such Courts for the city of Baltimore, as are here-
inafter provided for, and Justices of the Peace; all said
Courts shall be Courts of Record, and each shall have a
seal to be used in the authentication of all process issuing
therefrom. The process and official character of Justices
of the Peace shall be authenticated as hath heretofore been
' Thus added by Chapter 444. Acts of 1959. ratified Movember 8, 1960.
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