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MSA SC 5339-192-10
Collection	Research and Educational Projects at the Maryland State Archives
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Dates	1953
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"The present multiplication of courts in Baltimore City is indefensible. It is a monument to inertia and an utterly unreasonable resistance to change." Commission to Study the Judiciary of Maryland, 1953, quoted in John Carroll Byrnes, "Evolution of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, 1632-1997," in Histories of the Bench & Bar of Baltimore City (Baltimore: Baltimore Courthouse and Law Museum Foundation, 1997) 44-45. The duplication of courts and clerks was also discussed by The Sun in 1915, when the author discussed the Register of Wills and 6 court clerks - "...no sound reason can be given why there should not be one clerk at the head of all the offices, which really are divisions of one office. If every one of the present clerks were to die tomorrow, neither the bar nor the public would be inconvenienced in the slightest degree, so far as the clerk's official duties are concerned." "State Wastes $21,000 in Court Clerkships." The Sun, 26 July 1915.

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