78 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. IV

Judges, so assigned to the said several Courts, shall, when holding the
same, have all the powers and exercise all the jurisidiction 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 sickness, 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 holding 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 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 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,
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 Baltimore
City from the decision of the Judge or the Judges holding the Balti-
more 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.

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