JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERN

OH. 355

tion in a summary way to the Circuit Court for the

county or Superior Court for the City of Baltimore,

where said company shall have an office for the

transaction of business, for relief against the said

alleged grievance, and thereupon the said court shall

appoint a short day for hearing the matter of the said

petition, of which the said company shall have notice,

and on hearing of the parties, or in case the said

company shall fail to appear and show, cause against

the said application, on examination of the said pe-

tition and the evidence which shall or may be pro-

duced by the. petitioner in support thereof, and the

said court shall and may pass such order for relieving

Pass order.

the said petitioner or otherwise as to justice shall

appertain, and the said court shall have full power

to enforce obedience to the said order by writ of in-

junction or attachment, or other process which would

be applicable in the enforcement of the said order

in the event that the same had been passed by the

said court in the exercise of its general equity juris-

diction, and the said court shall have power to pro-

Have power.

vide for the examination of witnesses under a com-

mission or by deposition, and for taking or collecting

other necessary evidence to be used at the hearing as

aforesaid, and for the trial of issues involving any con-

troverted matter of fact by a jury under the direction

of the said court, if the said court shall deem such trial

to be proper, and either party may appeal from the final

May appeal.

order to be passed by the said court, or any order

determining the merits of the said application or any

part thereof to the Court of Appeals, and the said

appeal shall be heard and determined at the first

term of the said court next after the transmission of

the transcript of the record of the said appeal to the

said court, and in the event of an appeal as aforesaid

the said Court of Appeals shall have authority to

pass such order in relation to the costs of the said

proceeding as may seem right and proper.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1876.