COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	fees and expenses of the said Courts, as they
	may deem advisable. It shall also be the
	duty of said Judges of the Court of Appeals
	to devise, and promulgate by rules, or
	orders, forms and modes of framing and
	filing bills, answers, and other proceedings
	and pleadings in Equity; and also forms and
	modes of taking and obtaining evidence, to
	be used in Equity cases; and to revise and
	regulate, generally, the practice in the
	Courts of Equity of this State, so as to
	prevent delays, and to promote brevity and
	conciseness in all pleadings and proceedings
	therein, and to abolish all unnecessary costs
	and expenses attending the same. And all
	rules and regulations hereby directed to be
	made, shall, when made, have the force of
	Law, until rescinded, changed, or modified
	by the said Judges, or the General Assembly.
	Sec. 18A. The Chief Judge of the Court	See Section 531, Administration of Judicial
	of Appeals snail be the administrative head	System, p. 52.
	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 of
	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 assign-
	ment is to be made), any judge of any
	of the Circuit Courts for the counties, or
	any judge of the Supreme Bench of Balti-
	more City to sit in any case or cases 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

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