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public local law, municipal ordinance or rule of the Court of Appeals or
any other Court. Such rules may be rescinded, changed, modified or added
to from time to time by the Court of Appeals or by the General Assembly,
and such alterations or additions to the rules shall become effective at such
time as the Court of Appeals or General Assembly shall provide.

Cited but not construed in Quenstedt v. Wilson, 173 Md. 17,

See Art. 75, sec. 2, et seq., and sec. 28 and. sec. 153, et seq.

1939, ch. 719, sec. 35B.

36. If the Court of Appeals shall, pursuant to the power hereinbefore
conferred upon it, provide for a united practice and procedure in actions at
law and suits in equity, then immediately upon the effective date of said
rules, the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, the Circuit
Court No. 2 of Baltimore City, the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the
Baltimore City Court and the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City,
shall be deemed to be enlarged and extended to cover all civil actions.

1939, ch. 719, sec. 35C.

37. The Judges, of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall have
power to establish rules governing the practice and procedure in the Courts
of Baltimore City, except the Orphans' Court, and the Judges of the
Circuit Courts of the Counties and of the Orphans' Courts of Baltimore
City and of the Counties shall have power to establish rules governing the
practice and procedure in their respective Courts, provided that such rules
shall not be inconsistent with any general rules adopted by the Court of
Appeals, or with any statute then or thereafter in force.

1939, ch. 719, sec. 35D.

38. In order to aid in the performance of the duties placed upon it by
Section 35 hereof, the Court of Appeals shall have power to appoint a stand-
ing committee of members of the Bar who shall serve without compensa-
tion, except their traveling and other expenses. The Court of Appeals may
employ such assistants as may from¹ to time be necessary, and shall have
power to fix the salaries of the persons so employed. All such salaries, as
well as the traveling'and other expenses of the committee, including print-
ing and other costs, shall be paid by the Judicial Council out of such
amount as may be appropriated to it.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 36. 1912, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 36. 1888, sec. 35. 1806, ch. 94. 1862,
ch. 107. 1868,.ch. 30. 1890, ch. 95.

39. 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, f or 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.

¹ The word "time" evidently omitted.