CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
	risdiction in all judicial proceedings, except	viz: the Counties of Worcester, Wicomico,
	as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution	Somerset, and Dorchester, shall constitute
	or by law. The Superior Court shall have	the First Circuit; the Counties of Caroline,
	such other jurisdiction as prescribed by law.	Talbot, Queen Anne's, Kent and Cecil, the
	Jurisdiction of the Superior Court shall be	Second; the Counties of Baltimore and
	uniform throughout the State.	Harford, the Third; the Counties of
		Allegany, Garrett, and Washington, the
		Fourth; the Counties of Carroll, Howard
		and Anne Arundel, the Fifth; the Counties
		of Montgomery and Frederick, the Sixth;
		the Counties of Prince George's, Charles,
		Calvert, and St. Mary's, the Seventh; and
		Baltimore City, the Eighth.
		Sec. 20. A Court shall be held in each
		County of the State, to be styled the Circuit
		Court for the County, in which it may be
		held. The said Circuit Courts shall have
		and exercise, in the respective counties, all
		the power, authority and jurisdiction,
		original and appellate, which the present
		Circuit Courts of this State now have and
		exercise, or which may hereafter be pre-
		scribed by law.
		The several judges of the Circuit Court
		for Montgomery County on and after the
		Tuesday next after the first Monday in
		November, nineteen hundred and sixty-six,
		shall each, alternately and in rotation and
		on schedules to be established by the said
		judges, sit as an Orphan's Court for said
		County, and shall have and exercise all
		the power, authority and jurisdiction which
		the present Orphans' Courts now have and
		exercise, or which may hereafter be pre-
		scribed by law.
		Part IV. Courts of Baltimore City.
		Sec. 27. There shall be in the Eighth
		Judicial Circuit, six Courts, to be styled
		the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the
		Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court
		of Common Pleas, the Baltimore City Court,
		the Circuit Court of Baltimore City and the
		Criminal Court of Baltimore.
		Sec. 28. The Superior Court of Balti-
		more City, the Court of Common. Pleas, and
		the Baltimore City Court shall, each, have
		concurrent jurisdiction in all civil common
		Law cases, and, concurrently, all the juris-
		diction which the Superior Court of Balti-
		more City and the Court of Common Pleas
		now have, except jurisdiction in Equity,
		and except in applications for the benefit of
		the Insolvent Laws of Maryland, and in
		cases of Appeal from judgements of Justices
		of the Peace in said city, whether civil or
		criminal, or arising under the ordinances
		of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,

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