M CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 4.

ters, as would have been the right of the parties if said matters
had been decided by the Court in which said cases were tried.
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 hear and
determine all motions for a new trial when such motions arise,
either on questions of fact or for misdirection upon any matters
of law; and all motions in arrest of judgment or upon any matters
of law determined by the said Judge and all such motions shall
be heard and determined within thirty days after they are heard.

Dykes t Bonks, 31 Md. 239 Roth e House of Refuge, 31 Md 329 Mer-
rick, Ex'r v. B & O R R. Co, 33 Md. 481 Gibbons, Garn. v Cherry, 53 Md.
144.

SEC. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City from the decision of the Judge, or the Judges, holding
the Baltimore City Court, in case of appeal from a Justice of the
Peace; but the decision by said Judge, or Judges, shall be final;
and all writs and other process issued out of either of said Courts,
requiring attestation, shall be attested in the name of the Chief
Judge of the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City.

SEC. 35. Three of the Judges of said Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City, shall constitute a quorum of said Court.

SEC. 36. All causes depending, at the adoption of this Consti-
tution, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court of
Common Pleas, the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and the Cir-
cuit Court of Baltimore City, shall be proceeded in, and prose-
cuted to final judgment, or decree, in the Courts, respectively, of
the same name established by this Constitution, except cases be-
longing to that class, jurisdiction over which is by this Consti-
tution transferred to the Baltimore City Court, all of which shall,
together with all cases now pending in the City Court of Balti-
more, be proceeded in, and prosecuted to final judgment in said
Baltimore City Court.

Orrick v Boehm, Trustee, 49 Md. 72. .

SEC. 37. There shall be a Clerk of each of the said Courts of
Baltimore City, except the Supreme Bench, who shall be elected
by the legal and qualified voters of said City, at the election to