446 COURTS. [ART. 26.

day in October of each and every year; no action in the court of
appeals shall continue longer than the end of the fourth term after
the same shall have been instituted, unless by consent of the par-
ties.

F G L., (1860,) art. 29, sec. 43. 1806, ch. 94 1862, ch. 107. 1868, ch. 30.

35. The crier appointed by the court of appeals shall receive
five dollars a day for his attendance for every day, Sundays ex-
cepted, during the terms of session of said court of appeals, and
whenever, in the judgment of said court, the attendance or ser-
vices of a sheriff may be required in said court, the judges thereof
may direct a sheriff to attend or perform such services; for 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 the said
crier and sheriff a certificate of the number of days for which they
are respectively entitled to said per diem.

Circuit Courts for the Counties.

P. G. L, (1860,) art. 29, sec. 44. 1773, ch. 1. 1785, ch 87. 1804, ch. 55.

1805, ch. 65.

36. The circuit courts for the several counties are the highest
common-law courts of record and original jurisdiction within this
State, and each has full common-law powers and jurisdiction in all
civil and criminal cases within its county, (except where by law
the jurisdiction has been taken away or conferred upon another
tribunal;) and all the additional powers and jurisdiction given by
the constitution, and by law.

State v. Tibbs, 3 H. & McH 83 Briscoe v. Ward, 1 H. & J. 165. Whitting-
ton v. Polk, I H & J. 236. Harris v. Dorsey, 1 H. & J. 416. Johnson v.
Medtart, 4 H. & J. 24 Bevans v. Briscoe, 4 H. & J. 140. State v. Chase, 5 H.
& J. 297. State v. Buchanan, 5 H & J 361. Offutts's Adm'rs v. Offutt, 2 H. &
G. 178. Strike 9. McDonald, 2 H. & G. 191 Richardson v. Stillinger, 12 G. &
J. 477. Brooks v. Delapaine, 1 Md Ch. 351. Gough v. Crane, 3 Md. Ch. 119.
Dunnock v. Dunnock, 3 Md Ch. 140. Keighler v. Nicholson, 4 Md. Ch. 87.
O'Reilly v. Murdock, 1 Gill, 32. Beall v. Black, 1 Gill, 203 Tomlinson's Les-
see v. Devore, 1 Gill, 345. Carter v. Tuck, 3 Gill, 251. Tomlinson v. McKaig, 5
Gill, 256. Price v. State, 8 Gill, 311. Barnes v. Compton, 8 Gill, 391. Baylies
v. Ellicott, 9 Gill, 453. Bradford v. Jones, 1 Md 368 Rawlings v. State, 2 Md.
201 Ott v. Dill, 7 Md. 251. American Exchange Bank v. Inloes, 7 Md. 380.
Blimline v. Cohen, 8 Md 147 Keighler v. Ward, 8 Md. 254. Coleman v. State,
10 Md. 168 Tucker v. State, 11 Md 330.