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1	to call it.
2	The way this is worded, it would allow the
3	type of People's Court organization proposed by the
4	State Bar Association and adopted in principal at its
5	recent meeting in Atlantic City. It contemplates that
6	in some areas of the State it may not be necessary to
7	have a court in each county, but it doesn't foreclose
8	that from being done by the Legislature.
9	JUDGE FAIRBANKS: Mr. Chairman, may I ask a
10	question? In Subsection (a) you state, jurisdiction
11	vested exclusively in the People's Court shall be uniform.
12	Why do you use the words, exclusively? Why
13	don't you simply say the jurisdiction vested in'the People's
14	Court shall be uniform throughout the State? Isn't the
15	purpose of the reform at this level certainly to make
16	what is now a very ununiform system uniform and why would
17	it be necessary to imply that the jurisdiction which was
18	concurrent would be nonuniforrn?
19	MR. RODOWKY: That is the purpose, so that in
20	a metropolitan area, the concurrent jurisdiction could go
21	to a higher dollar amount if the Legislature desired than