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of each and every year; no action in the court of appeals shall continue
longer than the end of the fourth term after the same shall have been
instituted, unless by consent of the parties.

1904, art. 26, sec. 36. 1888, art. 26, sec. 35. 1860, art. 29. sec. 43. 1806, ch, 94.
1862, ch. 107. 1868, ch. 30. 1890, ch. 95.

36. It shall be the duty of the crier appointed by the court of appeals
to be in attendance at the rooms of said court every day in the year,
legal holidays and Sundays excepted; and he shall receive for his
sei vices one thousand dollars per annum, payable in quarterly instal-
ments; and whenever in the judgment of said court the attendance or
services of a sheriff may be required in said court, the judges thereof
may direct a sheriff to attend or perform such services, for which
attendance and services the said sheriff shall be entitled to a per diem
of three dollars and fifty cents; and the judges of said court shall, at
the end of each session of the said court, give such sheriff a certificate of
the number of days for which he is entitled to said per diem.
See art. 36, sec. 18.

Ibid. sec. 37. 1892, ch. 353. 1894, ch. 255, sec. 35 A.

37. The judges of the court of appeals are authorized to appoint a
messenger to the court, and he shall receive one thousand dollars to be
paid to him in quarterly instalments.

Circuit Courts for the Counties.

Ibid. sec. 38. 1888, art. 26, sec. 36. 1860, art. 29, sec. 44. 1773, ch. 1.
1785, ch. 87. 1804, ch. 55. 1805, ch. 65.

38. The circuit courts for the several counties are the highest com-
mon law courts of record and original jurisdiction within this State,
and each has full common law powers and jurisdiction in all civil and
criminal cases within its county (except where by law the jurisdiction
has been taken away or conferred upon another tribunal); and all the
additional powers and jurisdiction given by the constitution and by law.
This section cited, and certain Jurisdiction pointed out as having been
"taken away." Main v. Fessler, 89 Md. 469.

For cases Involving the act of 1805, ch. 65 (effecting the organization of
the new courts after the abolition of the general court), see Price v. State,
8 Gill, 310; Cromwell v. State, 12 G. & J. 259; State v. Chase, 5 H. & J. 303;
Campbell's Case, 2 Bl. 224.

For cases Involving the act of 1804, ch. 55 (abolishing the general court),
see Steuart v. Mason, 3 H. & J. 531; The Chancellor's Case, 1 Bl. 599; Price
v. State, 8 Gill, 302; Bell v. State, 4 Gill, 304; Cromwell v. State, 12 G. & J.
260; State v. Dashlell, 6 H. & J. 269.

As to the concurrent Jurisdiction of Justices of the peace, see art. 52, sec.
11. Cf. art. 52, sec. 5, et seq. ("Justices of the Peace").

Ibid. sec. 39. 1888, art. 26, sec. 37. 1860, art. 29, sec. 45. 1852, ch. 16,
secs. 2-4. 1868, ch. 52. 1884, ch. 27.

39. Each of the circuit judges for the counties or judicial circuits
may make orders, in recess of their several courts, in cases of law, and
may require in writing the original papers on any case, or abstracts and