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1	handling the papers, so that if the idea of making it a
2	division of the Circuit Court is to make it more
3	efficient and save money, I don't believe this would
4	make any difference one way or the other. If you had it
5	all in the Circuit Court, 1 would expect that very shortly
6	there would be a division, as you say, which would be
7	the People's Court division, which would hove an assistant
8	clerk, which would, in effect, be the same as the clerk
9	of People's Court is now and have precisely the same
10	mechanical and paper functions going on. I don't see how
11	you would save anything. To me, there is a lot of
12	merit in having a separate court at a lower level, simply
13	because this is the nature of things. I don't know of any
14	other jurisdiction which has a court of trial jurisdic-
15	tion at the bottom, so to speak, that is divided into
16	divisions which would contemplate what you ere talking
17	about now. The Court of General Sessions in the District
18	of Columbia does have a small claims branch, but that is
19	within its own limited jurisdiction, but there still is a
20	district court, which serves as the Court of General
21	Jurisdiction for the District of Columbia.