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tions and conditions as the General Assembly may pre-
scribe, to sell the State's interest in the other works of
internal improvement, whether as a stockholder or a cred-
itor, and also the State's interest in any banking corpor-
ation, receiving in payment the bonds and registered debt
now owing by the State, equal in amount to the price ob-
tained for the State's said interest; provided that the in-
terest of the State in the Washington branch of the Bal-
timore and Ohio Railroad be reserved and excepted from
sale; and provided further, that no sale or contract of
sale of the State's interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and the Sus-
quehanna and Tidewater Canal Companies shall go into
effect until the same shall be ratified by the ensuing
General Assembly.
Mr. Ritchie, from the minority of the committee on the
judiciary, made a report, which is in substance as follows:
It refers only to the courts of Baltimore city. It reap-
portions the present jurisdiction, viz: Takes equity juris-
diction from the Superior Court and makes the Circuit
Court exclusive in chancery; it relieves the Common Pleas
of appeals from justices, and adds cases of replevin; takes
appeals from magistrates and Saturday cases from the
Criminal Court and reorganizes the City Court, giving
it appellate jurisdiction in all magistrate cases and cases
from commissioners for opening streets and the minor
criminal offenses. It constitutes the Supreme Bench out
of the judges of all the courts except the Circuit, and em-
powers it to hear and determine motions for new trial
and in arrest of judgment from the other courts, and such
other jurisdiction as may hereafter be provided for. Pro-
vision is also made empowering the different judges to
act in each other's stead in case of absence, disability, <5c.,
and requiring them all to co-operate and assist each other
in clearing the overburdened dockets of their respective
courts, and in the general discharge of business, thus
making the whole judicial force available for the dispatch
of the aggregate business of the city. It is also provided
that important criminal and civil cases may be tried be-
fore a bench of more than one judge. The Orphans' Court
remains the same as now, except that an election is pro-
vided for in November. The judges receive a salary of
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