COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
	Administration
	Section 5.31. Administration of Judicial Sys-	Sec. 9. The Judge, or Judges of any Court,
	tem.	may appoint such officers for their respec-
	The chief judge of the Court of Appeals	tive Courts as may be found necessary;
	shall be the administrative head of the judi-	and such officers of the Courts in the City
	cial system. He shall designate, to serve at	of Baltimore shall be appointed by the
	his pleasure, one Intermediate Appellate	Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
	Court judge, one Superior Court judge, and	City. It shall be the duty of the General
	one District Court judge as the chief judge	Assembly to prescribe, by Law, a fixed com-
	of each court. Each shall perform those du-	pensation for all such officers; and said
	ties in the administration of the judicial	Judge, or Judges shall, from time to time,
	system that the chief judge of the Court of	investigate the expenses, costs and charges
	Appeals shall assign to him. The chief judge	of their respective courts, with a view to
	of the Court of Appeals may assign adminis-	a change or reduction thereof, and report
	trative duties to other judges in the manner	the result of such investigation to the Gen-
	prescribed by rule. Any judge may be as-	eral Assembly for its action.
	signed to sit temporarily in any court as pre- scribed by rule.	Sec. 13A. The General Assembly shall
		provide by General Law for the assignment
		by the Court of Appeals of any of the
		Chief Judges and any of the Associate
		Judges of the several Judicial Circuits of
		this State, including any Judge of the
		Court of Appeals from Baltimore City, and
		any of the Judges of the Supreme Bench of
		Baltimore, to sit in any other or different
		Judicial Circuits for designated and limited
		periods, for the purpose of relieving ac-
		cumulation of business or because of the
		indisposition or disqualification of any
		judge. And any judge so assigned by the
		Court of Appeals shall have all the power
		and authority pertaining to the judge of
		the court to which he is assigned.
		Sec. 13A. The Chief Judge of the Court
		of Appeals shall be the administrative head
		of the judicial system of the State. He shall
		from time to time require, from each of the
		judges of the Circuit Courts for the several
		counties and of the Supreme Bench of
		Baltimore City, and of any intermediate
		courts of appeal, reports as to the judicial
		work and business of each of the judges and
		their respective courts. He may, in case of
		a vacancy or of the illness, disqualification
		or other absence of any judge of the Court
		or Appeals or of any intermediate Court
		of appeal, or for the purpose of relieving
		an accumulation of business in any of Said
		courts, designate and assign any judge of
		the Court of Appeals (if the assignment is
		to be made to an intermediate court of
		appeal), any judge of any intermediate
		court of appeal (other than that to which
		the assignment is to be made), any judge
		of any of the Circuit Courts for the coun-
		ties, or any judge of the Supreme Bench of
		Baltimore City to sit in any case of cases

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