516 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 4, Sec. 31A]
SEC. 31A. In addition to the authority granted to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore by the preceding sec-
tion to pay to each of the judges of the Supreme Bench the
annual sum of Five Hundred Dollars, authority is hereby
given to said Mayor and City Council to pay to each of said
judges such further annual sum as an addition to their
respective salaries as the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more shall from time to time deem right and proper, pro-
vided, that any such sum being once granted shall not be
diminished during the continuance of said judges in officer
SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the said Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, as soon as the Judges thereof shall be
elected and duly qualified, and from time to time, to pro-
vide for the holding of each of the aforesaid Courts, by the
assignment 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 Balti-
more City may, from time to time, change the said assign-
ment, as circumstances 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 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 have 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
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 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 questions of fact, or for misdirec-
tion 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 Baltimore City shall make
all needful rules and regulations for the hearing before it
1 Added by Chapter 116, Acts of 1924. ratified November 2, 1926. See footnote
to Article 4, Section 24, above.
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