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 circum-
stances may require, and the public interest may demand;
and the judge or judges, so assigned to the said several courts,
shall, when holding the same, have all the powers and exer-
cise all the jurisdiction which may belong to the court so be-
ing 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.
Jackson vs. State, 87 Md., 192.

SEC. 33. The said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall
have power, and it shall be its duty, to provide for the hold-
ing 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 the said judges; and shall also have jurisdiction to bear
and determine all motions for a new trial in cases tried in
any of said courts, where such motions arise either, on ques-
tions 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 Balti-
more 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 de-
cided 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 ar-
rest of judgment, or )upon any matters of law, determined by
the said judge, and all such motions shall be heard and de-
termined within thirty days after they are made.]*

Dykes, vs. Banks, 31 Md., 239. Both vs. House of Refuge, 31 Md.,
329. Merrick vs. B. & O. R. R. Co., 33 Md., 481. Gibbons vs. Cherry,
53 Md., 144.

Thus amended by the Act of 1870, Chapter 177, as provided by Section TO
of Article 4 of the Constitution.