152 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. IV

cases, or transaction of the business assigned to said Judge or
Judges, as aforesaid, before some one or more of the Judges of
said Court.
Jackson v. State, 87 Md. 192.

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
conduct of business in each of the said Courts, during the
session thereof, and in vacation, or in Chambers, before any of
said Judges; and shall also have jurisdiction to hear and
determine all motions for a new trial in cases tried in any of
said Courts, 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, or Judges, while holding said
several Courts; and the said Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City shall make all needful rules and regulations for the hear-
ing before it of all said matters; and the same right of appeal
to the Court of Appeals shall be allowed from the determina-
tion of. the said Court on such matters, 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 Balti-
more City, or 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.]*

Dykes v. Banks, 31 Md. 239. Roth v House of Refuge, 31 Md 229.
Merrick v. B. & O. R. R. Co., 33 Md 481. Gibbons v. Cherry, 53 Md. 144.

Sec. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of Balti-
more City froni the decision of the Judge or the Judges hold-
ing 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

"Thus amended by the Act of 1870, cil 177, as provided by Section 39, of Article 4, of the
Constitution.