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more City Court shall appoint a day or hearing said appeals,
which shall not be less than five or more than thirty days after
the expiration of the thirty days' limit for taking appeals as
aforesaid ; and shall direct the clerk of the said Baltimore City

Court to issue a subpoena duces tecum to the Judges of said Ap-
peal Tax Court, requiring them to produce and deliver to said
Baltimore City Court the record of the proceedings of the said
Appeal Tax Court, and all maps, plats, documents and other
papers connected with the said record ; the said Baltimore
City Court shall have full power to hear and fully examine the
subject and decide on said appeals, and for that purpose it is
hereby authorized and empowered to adjourn from time to
time, and may cause all or any of such appeals to be consoli-
dated, or may hear and decide them separately, and may re-
quire the said Judges of the Appeal Tax Court,their clerks, sur-
veyors or other agents and servants, or any of them, and all
such other persons as the Baltimore City Court may deem ne-
cessary to attend, and examine them on oath or affirmation ;
and may permit and require all such explanations, amend-
ments and additions to be made to and of the proceedings
as the Court shall deem requisite. The person or the City
appealing to the said Baltimore City Court shall have a trial
before the Court without the intervention of a jury, and the
Court sitting without a jury shall ascertain or decide on the
proper assessment, and shall not reject or set aside the record
of the proceedings of the said Judges of the said Appeal Tax
Court for any defect or omission in either form or substance, but
shall amend or supply all such defects and omissions, and as-
sess, increase or reduce the amount of the assessment, and al-
ter, modify and correct the records of proceedings in all or any
of its parts, as the said Baltimore City Court shall deem just
and proper, and shall cause the proceedings and decisions on
said appeals to be entered in the book containing the record of
proceedings of the said Baltimore City Court, certified by the
Clerk under the seal of the Baltimore City Court, and the book
to be transmitted to the Judges of the said Appeal Tax Court,
which shall be final and conclusive in every respect, unless an
appeal be taken to the Court of Appeals. Such record book or
copy of the proceedings therein, or any part of such proceed-
ings, whether in or out of Court, certified by the Judges of the
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