and all motions in arrest of judgment, or upon any matters
of law determined by the said judge, or judges, while holding
said several courts; and the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City shall make all needful rules and regulations for the hearing
before it of all said matters; and the same right of appeal to the
Court of Appeals shall be allowed from the determination of the
said court on such matters, as would have been the right of the
parties if said matters had been decided by the court in which
said cases were tried.

[The judge, before whom any case may hereafter be tried,
in either the Baltimore City Court, the Superior Court of
Baltimore City, or the Court of Common Pleas, shall have
exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine, and the said judge
shall hear and determine all motions for a new trial where such
motions arise, either on questions of fact or for misdirection
upon any matters of law, and all motions in arrest of judgment,
or upon any matters of law, determined by the said judge,
and all such motions shall be heard and determined within
thirty days after they are made.]*

SEC. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore City from the decision of the judge or the judges hold-
ing .the Baltimore City Court in case of appeal from a Justice
of the Peace; but the decision by said judge or judges shall be
final; and all writs and other process issued out of either of said
courts, requiring attestation, shall be attested in the name of
the Chief Judge of the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City.

SEC. 35. Three of the judges of said Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City shall constitute a quorum of said court.

SEC. 36. All causes depending, at the adoption of this
Constitution, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the
Court of Common Pleas, the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
and the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, shall be proceeded
in, and prosecuted to final judgment or decree, in the courts
respectively of the same name established by this Constitution,
except cases belonging to that class, jurisdiction over which
is by this Constitution transferred to the Baltimore City Court,
all of which shall, together with all cases now pending in the
City Court of Baltimore, be proceeded in and prosecuted to
final judgment in said Baltimore City Court.

SEC. 37. There shall be a clerk of each of the said courts
of Baltimore city, except the Supreme Bench, who shall be
elected by the legal and qualified voters of said city, at the

* Thus amended by the Act of 1870, Chapter 177, as provided by Section 39 of Article 4 of
the Constitution.