CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	14A was proposed, if otherwise qualified,	late Court may sit in divisions. At least three
	shall be ineligible for appointment or	judges shall sit in each case.
	election as a judge of any intermediate
	court of appeal, established by law by the
	General Assembly pursuant to said Section
	14 A, by reason of his membership in such
	General Assembly.
	Sec. 15. Any judge of the Court of	See Section 5.02, Jurisdiction, p. 55.
	Appeals or of an intermediate court of
	appeal who heard the cause below either
	as a trial judge or as a judge of any inter-
	mediate court of appeal as the case may be
	shall not participate in the decision. In
	every case an opinion, in writing, shall be
	filed within three months after the argu-
	ment, or submission of the cause; and the
	judgment of the Court of Appeals shall be
	final and conclusive.
	Sec. 16. Provision shall be made by
	Law for publishing Reports of all causes,
	argued and determined in the Court of
	Appeals and in the intermediate courts of
	appeal, which the judges thereof, respec-
	tively, shall designate as proper for
	publication.
	Sec. 17. There shall be a Clerk of the	Section 5.33. Clerks of Court.
	Court of Appeals, who shall be appointed	The chief judge of each court shall ap-
	by and shall hold his office at the pleasure	point, to serve at his pleasure, a chief clerk
	of said Court of Appeals.	of that court. There shall be in each county
		a clerk of the Superior Court who shall be
		selected as prescribed by law. There shall be
		in each county a clerk of the District Court
		whose appointment and term shall be pre-
		scribed by rule.
	Sec. 18. It shall be the duty of the	Section 5.03. Rule-Making Power.
	Judges of the Court of Appeals to make and	The Court of Appeals shall have power to
	publish rules and regulations for the pros-	prescribe rules governing practice and proce-
	ecution of appeals to the appellate Courts,	dure in all courts; governing the admission
	whereby they shall prescribe the periods	of persons to practice law in this State and
	within which appeals may be taken, what	their discipline; and governing the adminis-
	part or parts of the proceedings in the	tration of the courts, officers of the judicial
	Court below shall constitute the record on	branch, and officers of the executive branch
	appeal, and the manner in which such	to the extent that their duties directly relate
	appeals shall be brought to hearing or	to the enforcement of judicial orders. The
	determination, and shall regulate, generally,	General Assembly shall have concurrent pow-
	the practice of said Court of Appeals and	er to regulate by law the matters enumerated
	any intermediate courts of appeal so as	in this section, except when these matters are
	to prevent delays, and promote brevity in	specifically required by this Constitution to
	all records and proceedings brought into	be prescribed by rule. As used in this article,
	said Courts, and to abolish and avoid all	rule shall mean a rule prescribed by the
	unnecessary costs and expenses in the pros-	Court of Appeals. In the event of a conflict
	ecution of appeals therein; and the said	between a rule and a law, the later in time
	Judges shall make such reduction in the	shall prevail to the extent of the conflict.

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