340 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

request made therefor, to take such bodies within forty-eight
hours after death, to be by him used within the State for the ad-
vancement of medical science, preference being given to medical
schools, public and private; and said bodies shall be distributed
to and among the same equitably, the number assigned to each
being proportioned to that of its students; provided, however,
that if the deceased person, during his or her last sickness, of
his or her own accord, shall request to be buried, or if any per-
son claiming to be, and satisfying the proper authorities that he is,
of kindred to the deceased, shall ask to have the body for burial,
it shall be surrendered for interment; or if such deceased person
was a stranger or traveler, who died suddenly, the body shall be
buried and not handed over as aforesaid.

1882, ch. 113.

154. Every physician or surgeon, before receiving any such
dead body, shall give to the proper authorities a sufficient bond
that such body shall be used only for the promotion of medical
science within the State; and whosoever shall use such body for
any other purpose, or shall remove the same beyond the limits
of this State, and whosoever shall sell or buy such body, or in
any way traffic in the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for a term not
exceeding five years at hard labor in the city jail.

COURTS.

SUPERIOR COURT, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, AND BALTIMORE
CITY COURT.

1870, Ch. 177.

155. The judge before whom any case may be tried in either
the Baltimore city court, the superior court of Baltimore city, or
in the court of common pleas, shall have exclusive jurisdiction to
hear and determine, and the said judge shall hear and determine,
all motions for a new trial where 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 made.