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elected and duly qualified, and from time to time, to provide

for the holding of each of the aforesaid courts, by the assign-

ment 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 cir-

cumstances may require, and the public interest may de-

mand ; and the judge or judges, so assigned to the said sev-

eral courts, shall, when holding the same, have all 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 trans-

action 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

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 hear

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

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 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

arrest of judgment, or upon any matters of law, determined