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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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