COURTS. 939
Court of Appeals.
An. Code, sec. 31. 1904, sec. 31. 1888, sec. 30. 1852, ch. 263. 1892, ch. 521.
31. Any judge of the court of appeals, or any judge of a circuit court,
or any judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city, who shall be con-
nected by consanguinity or affinity with any party to a cause within the
third degree, counting down from a common ancestor to the more remote,
shall be disqualified from sitting in such cause.
An. Code, sec. 32. 1904, sec. 32. 1888, sec. 31. 1852, ch. 82.
32. No judge of the court of appeals shall be deemed to have aban-
doned his residence in the judicial circuit for which he shall have been
elected by reason of his residence in Annapolis during the term for which
he may have been elected, unless he shall signify his intention so to aban-
don his residence in his said district by voting in the city of Annapolis.
An. Code, sec. 33. 1904, sec. 33. 1888, sec. 32. 1780, ch. 11, sec. 4. 1795, ch. 55.
33. Any one of the judges of the court of appeals, in the absence of
the others, may adjourn the court until the attendance of the other judges
can be had; and in the absence of all the judges, the clerk may adjourn
the court from day to day until a judge is present.
An. Code, sec. 34. 1904, sec. 34. 1888, sec. 33. 1780, ch. 11, sec. 4.
34. Any one of the judges may take the return of process, and may
order the issuing of the same, and may enter continuances by consent of
the parties.
An. Code, sec. 35. 1904, sec. 35. 1888, sec. 34. 1886, ch. 185.
35. The court of appeals shall hold its sessions on the second Monday
in January, the first Monday in April, and the first Monday in October
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 in-
stituted, unless by consent of the parties.
An. Code, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 36. 1888, sec. 35. 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 services one
thousand dollars per annum, payable in quarterly instalments; and when-
ever 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. 19.
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