CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		or for a specified period as a judge of the
		Court of Appeals or of any intermediate
		court of appeal (as the case may be) in
		lieu of a judge of such Court. The Chief
		Judge of the Court of Appeals also may
		designate and assign, to sit as a judge of
		the Circuit Court for any county or the
		Supreme Bench of Baltimore City and of
		any other Court or Courts of Baltimore
		City which may be held by a judge of said
		Supreme Bench, either alone or with one
		or more other judges, in any case or cases
		or for a specified period, any judge of the
		Court of Appeals or of any intermediate
		court of appeal or of any other Circuit
		Court or of the Supreme Bench of Balti-
		more City. Any judge designated and
		assigned by the Chief Judge of the Court
		of Appeals pursuant to this section shall
		have all the power and authority pertaining
		to a judge of the Court to which he is so
		assigned; and his power and authority shall
		continue with respect to all cases (including
		any motions or other matters incidental
		thereto) which may come before him by
		virtue of such designation and assignment
		until his action thereon shall be completed.
		In the absence of the Chief Judge of the
		Court of Appeals the provisions of this
		section shall be applicable to the senior
		judge present in said Court of Appeals. The
		powers of the Chief Judge under the afore-
		going provisions of this section shall be
		subject to such rules and regulations, if any,
		as the Court of Appeals may make. The
		Court of Appeals from time to time shall
		make rules and regulations to revise the
		practice and procedure in the appellate
		courts and in the other courts of this State,
		which shall have the force of law until
		rescinded, changed or modified by the Court
		of Appeals or otherwise by law. The power
		of the courts other than the Court of
		Appeals to make rules of practice and pro-
		cedure shall be subject to the rules and
		regulations prescribed by the Court of
		Appeals or otherwise by law.
		Sec. 32. It shall be the duty of the said
		Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, as soon
		as the Judges thereof shall be elected and
		duly qualified, and from time to time, to
		provide for the holding of each of the afore-
		said Courts, by the assignment of one, or
		more of their number to each of the said
		Courts, who may sit either, separately, or
		together, in the trial of cases; and the said
		Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may,
		from time to time, chp.nge the said assign-

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