dollars to their respective salaries; provided, that the same
being once granted shall not be diminished nor increased
during the continuance of said judges in office.

SEC. 31A. In addition to the authority granted to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore by the preceding sec-
tion to pay to each of the judges of the Supreme Bench the
annual sum of Five Hundred Dollars, authority is hereby
given to said Mayor and City Council to pay to each of said
judges such further annual sum as an addition to their respective
salaries as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall from
time to time deem right and proper, provided, that any such
sum being once granted shall not be diminished during the
continuance of said judges in office.*

SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the said Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, as soon as the judges thereof shall be elected
and duly qualified, and from time to time, to provide for the
holding of each of the aforesaid courts, by the assignment of
one or more of their number to each of the said courts, who may
sit either separately or together in the trial of cases; and the
said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may, from time to time,
change the said assignment, as circumstances may require,
and the public interest may demand; and the judge or judges, so
assigned to the said several courts, shall, when holding the same,
have all the powers and exercise all the jurisdiction which may
belong to the court so being held; and it shall also be the duty of
the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, in case of the sick-
ness, absence or disability of any judge or judges assigned as
aforesaid, to provide for the hearing of the cases, or transaction
of the business assigned to said judge or judges, as aforesaid,
before some one or more of the judges of said court.

SEC. 33. The said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall
have power, and it shall be its duty, to provide for the hold-
ing of as many general terms as the performance of its duties
may require, such general terms to be held by not less than
three judges; to make all needful rules and regulations for
the conduct of business in each of the said courts, during the
session thereof, and in vacation, or in chambers, before any
of the said judges; and shall also have jurisdiction to hear
and determine all motions for a new trial in cases tried in
any of said courts, where such motions arise either, on ques-
tions of fact, or for misdirection upon any matters of law,

+ Increased by Acts of 1892, Chapter 388, to four thousand five hundred dollars.
++ Increased by Acts of 1927, Chapter 235, to six thousand eight hundred and seventy-five

* Sec. 31-A adopted at the November election 1926, as proposed by Ch. 116, Acts of 1924.