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crier of the superior court, and the crier of the court

of common pleas of Baltimore city.

Approved and in force April 23, 1870.

CITY HAIL.

1870, c. 303 entitled an act to authorize the mayor and city council of Baltimore to
issue its bonds to defray the expenses of the building of the new city hall enacts:

1. That the mayor and city council of Baltimore is authorized to issue the bonds
of the said mayor and city council of Baltimore to an amount not exceeding the sum
of one million of dollars, in addition to the one million of dollars which it was au-
thorized to issue by the act of assembly of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter
three hundred and ninety-one, the proceeds of the sales of said bonds authorized to
be issued, to be used in the construction of the new city hell, now being erected in
said city of Baltimore; which bonds so to be issued, together with interest thereon,
shall be made payable at such times as shall be determined by the said mayor and
City council of Baltimore, which is further authorized to make such provision for the
ultimate redemption of the principal of said bonds, and for the payment of the in-
terest thereon, as to it shall seem best.

2 That before any of the bonds mentioned in the preceding section of this act
shall be issued, the ordinance of the mayor and city council of Baltimore author-
izing the same shall have been submitted to and approved by the legal voters of
the said city, in accordance with the provisions of the seventh section of article
eleven of the constitution of Maryland.

3. That all acts or parts of acts of assembly inconsistent herewith, and especially
the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, chapter one, [391, ] entitled " an act au-
thorizing the mayor and city council of Baltimore to build a new city hall, " are re-
pealed.

Approved and in force ———.

COURTS.

1870, c. 177 entitled an act to change the jurisdiction of the supreme bench of Balti-
more city, and re-apportion and enlarge the jurisdiction of the Baltimore city
court, the superior court of Baltimore city and the court of common pleas, as pro-
vided by section thirty-nine of article four of the constitution, enacts that the fol-
lowing sections be added to the fourth article of public local laws, to be arranged
under sub-title " Courts, " to follow section one hundred and seventy-three, and be
numbered as sub-sections one and two:

173. Sub-Sec. 1. The judge, before whom any case may hereafter be tried, in either the Baltimore city court, the superior court of Baltimore city, or in the court of common pleas, shall have exclusive jurisdic- tion to hear and determine, and the said judge shall	1870, c. 177 Jurisdiction.
hear and determine all motions for a new trial where such motions arise, either on questions of fact or for	Motions for new trial and In arrest of judgment, &c.