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county, or superior court for the city of Baltimore,
where said company shall have an office for the trans-
action of business, for relief against the said alleged
grievance, and thereupon the said court shall appoint
a short day for bearing the matter of the said peti-
tion, of which the said company shall have notice,
and on the hearing of the panics, or in case the said
company shall fail to appear and show cause against
the said application, on examination of the said peti-
tion 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
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
injunction 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
jurisdiction, and the said court shall have power to
provide for the examination of witnesses under a
commission or by deposition, and for taking or col-
lecting other necessary evidence to be used at the
hearing as aforesaid and for the trial of issues involv-
ing any controverted 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
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Appeal
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appeal from the final 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.
In force from June 1, 1864.
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