CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	Baltimore 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	See Section 5.05, Chief Judge of Court of Ap-
	Court of Appeals the provisions of this	peals, p. 55, for absence of Chief Judge.
	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	See Section 5.03, Rule-Making Power, p. 56.
	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	rescinded, changed or modified by the Court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.
	Part HI. Circuit Courts.
	Sec. 19. The State shall be divided into	Section 5.08. Jurisdiction.
	eight Judicial Circuits, in manner following,	The Superior Court shall have original ju-
	viz: the Counties of Worcester, Wicomico,	risdiction in all judicial proceedings, except
	Somerset, and Dorchester, shall constitute	as otherwise prescribed by this Constitution
	the First Circuit; the Counties of Caroline,	or by law. The Superior Court shall have
	Talbot, Queen Anne's, Kent and Cecil, the	such other jurisdiction as prescribed by law.
	Second; the Counties of Baltimore and	Jurisdiction of the Superior Court shall be
	Harford, the Third; the Counties of	uniform throughout the State.
	Allegany, Garrett, and Washington, the
	Fourth; the Counties of Carroll, Howard
	and Anne Arundel, the Fifth; the Counties
	of Montgomery and Frederick, the Sixth;
	the Counties of Prince George's, Charles,
	Calvert, and St. Mary's, the Seventh; and
	Baltimore City, the Eighth.
	Sec. 20. A Court shall be held in each
	County of the State, to be styled the Circuit
	Court for the County, in which it may be
	held. The said Circuit Courts shall have
	and exercise, in the respective counties, all
	the power, authority and jurisdiction,
	original and appellate, which the present
	Circuit Courts of this State now have and
	exercise, or which may hereafter be pre-
	scribed by law.

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