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or judges, shall, from time to time, investigate the expenses,
costs and charges of their respective courts, with a view to a
change or reduction thereof, and report the result of such investi-
gation to the General Assembly for its action.

THE COURT OF APPEALS.

CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE IV, PART 2ND.

THE COURT OF APPEALS—HOW CONSTITUTED—ITS JURISDICTION

AND SESSIONS.

SEC. 14. The Court of Appeals shall be composed of the
Chief Judges of the first seven of the several Judicial Circuits of
the State, and a Judge from the City of Baltimore specially elected
thereto, one of whom shall be designated by the Governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, as the Chief Judge; and
in all cases until action by the Senate can be had, the Judge so des-
ignated by the Governor, shall act as Chief Judge. The Judge of
the Court of Appeals from the city of Baltimore shall be elected by
the qualified voters of said city, at the election of judges to be held
therein, as hereinbefore provided; and in addition to his duties,
as Judge of the Court of Appeals, shall perform such other
duties as the General Assembly shall prescribe. The jurisdic-
tion of said Court of Appeals shall be co-extensive with the
limits of the State, and such as now is, or may hereafter be, pre-
scribed by law. It shall hold its sessions in the city of Annap-
olis, on the first Monday in April, and the first Monday in
October, of each and every year, or at such other times as the
General Assembly may, by law, direct. Its sessions shall con-
tinue no less than ten months in the year, if the business before
it shall so require; and it shall be competent for the judges,
temporarily, to transfer their sittings elsewhere, upon sufficient
cause. (The sessions by Act of Assembly have been changed to
the first Monday in October, second Monday in January, first
Monday in April. )

THE JUDGES BELOW NOT TO SIT—OPINIONS TO BE FILED.

SEC. 15. Four of said judges shall constitute a quorum; no
cause shall be decided without the concurrence of at least three;
but the judge who heard the cause below, shall not participate in
the decision; in every case an opinion, in writing, shall be filed
within three months after the argument, or submission of the
cause; and the judgment of the Court shall be final and conclu-
sive, and all cases shall stand for hearing at the first term after
the transmission of the record.