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1 Memorandum on the Report of the Judiciary Constitutional Convention: Submitted to the Legislature by the City Club of New York 1 (1922)

handle is hein.statecon/mdrjcc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: MEMORANDUM on the Report of the Judiciary Constitutional Convention -Submitted to the Legislature by the City Club of New York. TO THE LEGISLATURE: The City Club of New York begs leave to submit the following observations and suggestions in re- spect of the Report and Supplemental Report of the Judiciary Constitutional Convention of 1921. While we regret that the Convention did not see fit to propose for consideration a plan for the appointment, instead of the election, of judicial officers, and a plan for the unification of all the courts of the State, we think that most of the proposals made by the Convention should be adopted. Particularly to be commended is the pro- posal for the extension of the jurisdiction of the Court of General Sessions and the unification therewith of the County Courts in the Counties of Kings, Bronx, Queens and Richmond, and the city-wide extension of the jurisdiction of the City Court of the City of New York and the increase in the maximum sum cognizable in that court. We must deprecate the plan of the Conven- tion to imbed in the Constitution detailed regu- lations in respect of every aspect of the jurisdic- tion conferred upon the Court of Appeals. The details should be left to legislative regulation as was done by the Constitution of 1894. It seems to us that aside from the adverse view expressed by the Convention in respect of the fundamental reforms to which we have already advetted, the most conspicuous and unfortunate omission is the failure to make any attempt to

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