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1	have, we felt that it would be sufficient to just say
2	they will have such jurisdiction as may be provided by
3	law, and we anticipate that there will be attached to a
4	constitution to be voted on what they call a schedule,
5	which will maintain the present jurisdiction, statutory
6	jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals until and unless it
7	is changed by the Legislature.
8	MR. SYKES: Isn't the general tendency now to
9	give the appellate, the Supreme Court only appellate
10	jurisdiction? I have also in mind the problem where
11	you would give the Legislature presumably under the Con-
12	stitution power to cut off all jurisdiction from the
13	Court of Appeals. I think that the jurisdiction should
14	be appellate only and that the Legislature should be re-
15	quired by ths Constitution to spell out that appellate
16	jurisdiction and to grant it. I would suggest that it
17	should read that the Supreme Court of Appeals shall have
18	an appellate jurisdiction, which shall be provided by law.
19	MR. MARTINEAU: I don't think that would be
20	required by the Legislature.
21	MR. SYKES: I think it would give the Supreme