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in all the states of the Union practically. The large
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cities have preserved these courts, have given them much
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broader power than we have. This was a statement made
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in 1913. So now we come down to the Bond Commission
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Report. Three recommendations were made. That the
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courts of the City of Baltimore be consolidated, that the
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Orphans Courts be abolished, and that the numbers of the
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members of the Court of Appeals be reduced. This was
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made in 1943 by, as I have seen in the press on at
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least 100 occasions, a well qualified commission and
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it was. Two of the recommendations never saw the light
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of day from any legislature that has met since 1943 to
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date. Those two that never got out were the consolida-
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tion of the courts of Baltimore City, along with the
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Clerk's offices, and the abolition of the Orphans Courts
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of Maryland. The third one did see the light of day and
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it sort of died a stillborn death because no sooner had
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the number of the members of the Court of Appeals been
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reduced to five, within a space of two years the member-
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ship of the Court of Appeals was increased beyond the
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five.
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