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1892, ch. 186. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 173A.

320. In all cases in which appeals are or may be allowed to the Balti-
more City Court from the decisions of any commissioners, or other persons
appointed in any manner to determine any benefits or damages in any
form of condemnation proceedings, for the use of the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, it shall be lawful for the city to enter appeals in the
same manner and within the same time or times allowed for their entry by
other persons; and all such appeals by whomsoever prayed within the time
or times limited therefor, shall be heard and determined by the Baltimore
City Court as speedily as may be, each person interested being secured in
his, her or its rights to a jury trial; and in case there should be more than
one appeal in reference to the same piece of property, they may all be
heard together, in the discretion of the court, before one jury; provided,
a sufficient panel of jurors be furnished, so that the city and the owners or
representatives of each separate interest or estate in such property may
strike four names from such panel; the practice, including the right of
appeal to the Court of Appeals in all such cases, shall conform as near as
may be to the practice now prevailing in said court in the trial of appeals
from the decisions of the Commissioners for Opening Streets.

1892, ch. 634. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 173B.

321. The Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall annually designate
two members of the said bench to sit in their respective courts, attended by
their clerks, during the annual sittings of the Registers of Voters, and also

on the four Saturdays immediately preceding the September session of the
Registers of Voters of the City of Baltimore, for the purpose of hearing
and determining applications for naturalization, and such applications

shall have precedence over all other business.

1900. ch. 705.

321A. The Supreme Bench is authorized to adopt rules and regula-
tions governing the subject of naturalization of aliens in the Courts of
Baltimore City, and imposing a uniform scale of charges to be collected
from the persons applying for naturalization to defray the expenses inci-

dent to the operation of said rules and regulations.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 173A. 1894, ch. 392.

322. Whenever the record of proceedings in any suit, action or issue
pending in one of the courts of common law in the City of Baltimore shall
be directed to be transmitted for trial to some other such court of the said
city, in accordance with Article 4, Section 8 of the Constitution, it shall
be the duty of the clerk df the court from which the said record of proceed-
ings is so directed to be removed, to immediately deliver to the clerk of
the court to which the same is so directed to be removed, all the original
papers in the said cause, together with a certified copy of all docket entries
relating to the same, which original papers and copy of docket entries shall
constitute such record of proceedings for the purposes of such trial; and it
shall thereupon become the duty of the judge of the court to which the said