COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		ment, as circumstances may require, and the
		public interest may demand; and the Judge,
		or Judges, so assigned to the said several
		Courts, shall, when holding the same, have
		all the powers and exercise all the juris-
		diction, which may belong to the Court so
		being held; and it shall also be the duty of
		the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,
		in case of the sickness, absence, or disability
		of any Judge or Judges, assigned as afore-
		said, to provide for the hearing of the cases,
		or transaction of the business assigned to
		said Judge, or Judges, as aforesaid, before
		some one, or more of the Judges of said
		Court.
		Sec. 41 A....... [People's Court of Balti-
		more City] The Judges of said Court shall
		have full power to regulate by rules the
		administration, procedure and practice of
		said Court; such rules shall have the force
		of law until rescinded or modified by said
		Judges or the General Assembly. Unless
		otherwise provided by Law, (1) all powers
		granted by this section or by Law to said
		Court or the Judges thereof as a body may
		be exercised by a majority of the Judges
		thereof, and (2) said Court shall not be a
		Court of Record.......
		Sec. 41 C. (c) ..... [Municipal Court of
		Baltimore City] The Chief Judge and the
		Associate Judges thereof shall have such
		powers and duties as the General Assembly
		shall prescribe from time to time by Law.
		The Judges of said Court shall have full
		power to regulate by rules the administra-
		tion, procedure and practice of said Court,
		including, but not limited to, the creation
		of divisions of said Court to hear exclusively
		any class or classes of cases and the as-
		signment of a particular judge or judges
		exclusively to such divisions and the vesting
		of administrative duties in the Chief Judge;
		such rules shall have the force of Law until
		rescinded or modified by said Judges or
		the General Assembly. Unless otherwise
		provided by Law, all powers granted by
		this section or by Law to said Court or the
		Judges thereof as a body may be exercised
		by a majority of the Judges thereof. Said
		Court shall not be a Court of Record.......
	Section 5.32. Cost of Judicial Branch.	Art. III, sec. 45. The General Assembly
	The cost of the operation and administra-	shall provide a simple and uniform system
	tion of the judicial branch shall be borne	of charges in the offices of Clerks of Courts,
	exclusively by the State, and all revenues	and Registers of Wills, in the Counties of
	derived from the operation and administra-	this State, and the City of Baltimore, and
	tion of the judicial branch shall inure to the	for the collection thereof; provided, the
	State.	amount of compensation to any of the said

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