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five hundred dollars, payable quarterly, which shall not be
diminished during their term of office : but authority is here-
by given to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to pay
to each of the said Judges an annual addition of five hundred
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. 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, ard the public interests may demand, and the
Judge, or Judges, so assigned to the several Courts, shall,
when holding the same, have all the powers and exer-
cise 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 sickness, absence, or
disability of any Judge, or Judges, assigned as aforesaid, to
provide for the hearing of the cases, or transaction of the busi-
ness 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 E ales 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 of said matters; and the same right of
appeal to the Court of Appeals shall be allowed from the de-
termination of the said Court on such matters, as would have
been the right of the parties if said matters had been de-
cided by the Court, in which said cases were tried.
Sec. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore City from the decision of the Judge, or Judges, hold-
ing the Baltimore City Court, in case of appeal from a Justice
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