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the powers and exercise 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 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 hare 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 regu-
lations 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 the Criminal Court, 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 Criminal Court; 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 in 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 when such motions
arise, either on questions of fact or for misdirection
upon any matters of law; and all motions in arrest of judg-
ment 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 heard.

SEC. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City from the decision of the Judge or the

Amended by Act of 1870, chapter 177.