ART. 5.] SPECIAL HEARING. 33

to the court of appeals, and that shall be used upon the hearing
of all such appeals; in cases arising under this rule, the court of
appeals shall have power to award costs, including the cost of
transmitting the record, to either of the parties in its discretion,
or the costs may be apportioned as the said court may deem just

Rule 18.

41. Whenever a case has before been in the court of appeals,
there shall be copied into the transcript, upon any subsequent
appeal, only the proceedings occurring fn the court below subse-
quent to the former appeal.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 5, sec. 10. 1865, ch. 141. 1870, ch. 263.

42. All appeals in cases of mandamus or questions arising
under the insolvent laws, on exceptions taken on the trials of
issues sent from the orphans' courts or courts of equity, orders
granting injunctions, dissolving or refusing to dissolve the same,
appointing a receiver, ratifying or refusing to ratify a trustee's
sale, and all appeals from decisions of the orphans' court, and
from any judgment or motion to set aside sales, or apply money
in the hands of the sheriff, and all appeals from decisions on
matters of law, made by the courts of Baltimore city, in relation
to the streets in said city, shall stand for special hearing at the
first term after the transmission of the record; and from every
final judgment or order granting or refusing a peremptory man-
damus in any case hereafter brought, involving the title or
right to a public office, either party shall have a right to appeal
within twenty days; and on such appeal, the clerk of the court
shall forthwith transmit the original papers, including the judg-
ment or order, to the court of appeals, and said court shall
immediately hear and determine the case.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1831, ch. 68, sec. 4.

43. All eases where the State is interested shall stand for
special hearing at the first term after the transmission of the
record.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 29, sec. 30. 1853, ch. 68, sec. 2.

44. Every application for a writ of diminution shall contain
a specification in writing of the parts of the records or proceed-
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