COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	may designate an Associate Judge of said
	Court as Chief Judge, and such appointee
	as Chief Judge shall continue as such for
	the residue of the term for which he was
	originally appointed or subsequently elected
	an Associate Judge of said Court; or the
	Governor may designate as Chief Judge the
	person appointed to fill the vacancy on said
	Court under sub-section (b) (2) herein.
	(c) The jurisdiction of said Court shall
	consist originally of the jurisdiction vested
	on the day immediately preceding the first
	Monday of May, 1961, in the Justices of the
	Peace of Baltimore City, including the
	Police Magistrates, the Chief Police Magis-
	trate of Baltimore City, the Magistrates-at-
	Large of Baltimore City, and the Traffic
	Court of Baltimore City, and thereafter
	shall consist of such greater or lesser juris-
	diction (which may be made exclusive as to
	any class or classes of cases), with such
	right of appeal therefrom, as the General
	Assembly shall prescribe from time to time
	by Law. The Chief Judge and the Associate
	Judges thereof shall have such powers and
	duties as the General Assembly shall pre-
	scribe from time to time by Law. The Judges
	of said Court shall have full power to
	regulate by rules the administration, pro-
	cedure 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 assignment of a
	particular judge or judges exclusively to
	such divisions and the vesting of administra-
	tive 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	shall have the force of Law until rescinded or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.
	(d) There shall be a Chief Clerk of said
	Court who shall be appointed by said Court
	and who shall perform such duties as may
	be prescribed from time to time by said
	Court or by Law by the General Assembly.
	He shall be paid such compensation from
	such sources as the General Assembly shall
	prescribe from time to time by Law, There
	shall be such deputy and assistant clerks,
	clerical, probationary, stenographic and
	other employees as may be prescribed from
	time to time by the General Assembly by
	Law and such Law shall prescribe the meth-
	od of selection, amount and manner of com-

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