676 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 4, Sec. 33]
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
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.^
SEC. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City from the decision of the Judge, or Judges,
holding the Baltimore City Court, in case of appeal from a
Justice of the Peace; but the decision by said Judge, or
Judges, shall be final; and all writs and other process issued
out of either of said Courts, requiring attestation, shall be
attested in the name of the Chief Judge of the said Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City.
SEC. 35. Three of the Judges of said Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City, shall constitute a quorum of said Court.
SEC. 36. All causes depending, at the adoption of this
Constitution, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the
Court of Common Pleas, the Criminal Court of Baltimore.
and the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, shall be proceeded
in, and prosecuted to final judgment, or decree, in the
Courts, respectively, of the same name established by this
Constitution, except cases belonging to that class, jurisdic-
tion over which is by this Constitution transferred to the
Baltimore City Court, all of which shall, together with all
cases now pending in the City Court of Baltimore, be pro-
i A paragraph first added to this section in the Code of 1904 has been removed.
It was enacted as a public local law of Baltimore City, by Chapter 177 of 1870
and never had the effect of a constitutional amendment. The Act of 1870 still is
in the local laws of Baltimore City. See Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore
City (1949 Edition), Sections 224 and 225.
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