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1	THE CHAIRMAN: We think it is not unwise be-
2	cause of the qualifications of all the judges in the
3	entire system. They are going to be the same.
4	JUDGE PRENDERGAST: Don't you think this would
5	downgrade the Circuit Court to the point where it may be
6	difficult to get judges to go on the bench? I think it
7	would.
8	MR. ENEY: We were hoping it would upgrade
9	the People's Court to the status of the Circuit Court.
10	JUDGE PROCTOR: isn't it bound to have the
11	opposite effect?
12	MR. ENEY: Why?
13	JUDGE PROCTOR: The tendency to meet in the
14	middle?
15	MR. MARTIHEAU: I don't think Judge Thomson
16	has been downgraded that he hears Traffic Court cases frees
17	the Baltimore-Washington court way.
18	MRS. BOTHE: The Court of Appeals hasn't been
19	downgraded because her court judges sit with her on
20	occasion.
21	MR. MARTINEAU: Vice versa, nor have the Court