COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	scribed, elect to have their causes tried
	before a jury. And the General Assembly
	may reapportion, change or enlarge the
	jurisdiction of the several Courts in said
	City.
	Part V. Orphans' Court.
	Sec. 40. The qualified voters of the	See Section 5.22, Judicial Term of Office, p.
	City of Baltimore, and of the several	51.
	Counties, except Montgomery County, shall on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, (nineteen hundred and fifty-	See Section 5.14, Eligibility for Nomination and Appointment p. 47.
	eight) nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and	See Section 5.24, Judicial Compensation, p.
	on the same day in every fourth year	51.
	thereafter, elect three men to be Judges of
	the Orphans' Courts of said City and
	Counties, respectively, who shall be citizens
	of the State, and residents for the twelve
	months preceding, in the City, or County,
	for which they may be elected. They shall
	have all the powers now vested in the
	Orphans' Courts of the State, subject to
	such changes as the Legislature may
	prescribe. Each of said Judges shall be paid
	such compensation as may be regulated by
	Law, and to be paid by the said City, or
	Counties, respectively. In case of a vacancy
	in the office of Judge of the Orphans' Court,
	the Governor shall appoint, subject to con-
	firmation, or rejection by the Senate, some
	suitable person to fill the same for the
	residue of the term.
	Sec. 41. There shall be a Register of
	Wills in each county of the State, and the
	City of Baltimore, to be elected by the legal
	and qualified voters of said counties and
	city, respectively, who shall hold his office
	for four years from the time of his election,
	and until his successor is elected and
	qualified; he shall be re-eligible, and subject
	at all times to removal for willful neglect
	of duty, or misdemeanor in office in the
	same manner that the Clerks of the Courts
	are removable. In the event of any vacancy
	in the office of the Register of Wills, said
	vacancy shall be filled by the Judges of the
	Orphans' Court, in which such vacancy
	occurs, until the next general election for
	Delegates to the General Assembly when a
	Register shall be elected to serve for four
	years thereafter.
	Part V-A. People's Courts.
	Sec. 41A. There is hereby created a	Section 5.11. Composition.
	People's Court of Baltimore City. Said	The District Court shall consist of the
	Court shall consist originally of a Chief	number of judges prescribed by law. The

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