ART. 4. ] JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT. lv

Council of Baltimore to pay to each of the said Judges an annual
addition of five hundred dollars to their respective salaries; pro-
vided, that the same, being once granted, shall not be diminished,
nor increased, during the continuance of said Judges ^n office.

SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the said Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City, as soon as the Judges thereof shall be elected
and duly qualified, and from time to time, to provide for the
holding of each of the aforesaid Courts, by the assignment of one
or more of their number to each of the said Courts, who may sit
either, separately, or together, in the trial of cases; and the said
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may, from time to time,
change the said assignment, as circumstances may require, and the
public interest may demand; and the Judge, or Judges, so assigned
to the said several Courts, shall, when holding the same have all
the powers and exercise all the jurisdiction, which may belong to
the Court so being held; and it shall also be the duty of the said
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, in case of the sickness, absence,
or disability of any Judge or Judges, assigned as aforesaid, to
provide for the hearing of the cases, or transaction of the busi-
ness assigned to said Judge, or Judges, 1 as aforesaid, before some
one, or more of the Judges of said Court.

SEC. 33. The said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall
have power, and it shall be its duty, to provide for the holding '
of as many general Terms as the performance of its duties may
require, such general Terms to be held by not less than three
Judges; to make all needful rules and regulations for the con-
duct of business in each of the said Courts, during the session
thereof, and in vacation, or in Chambers, before any of said
Judges; 1 and shall also have jurisdiction to hear and determine
all motions for a new trial in cases tried in the Criminal Court,
where such motions arise either, on questions of fact, or for mis-
direction upon any matters of Law, and all motions in arrest of
judgment, or upon any matters of Law determined by the said
Judge, or Judges, while holding said Criminal Court; and the said
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall make all needful rules
and regulations for the hearing before it of all of said matters;
and the same right of appeal to the Court of Appeals shall be
allowed from the determination of the said Court on such mat-

i Amended by Act of 1870, chapter 177.