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practice heretofore existing in said court, if taken or passed
during the term, or upon a motion or application made during
the term at which said judgment was entered, and no more; but
any such action taken or order passed after the expiration of
thirty days from the entry of any judgment, (unless upon a
motion or application made within that time), shall have the
same effect and force as it would have had under such previous
practice, if taken or passed after the expiration of said term,
and no more; and the said courts shall respectively have, for a
period of thirty days after the doing of any act or thing in any
cause before them, the same revisory power and control over
such act or thing which, under the practice heretofore existing,
they would have had over the same during the term ,at which
it was done, and no more; and after thirty days from the doing
of any such act or thing, the said courts shall have the same
revisory power and control thereover, which, under such pre-
vious practice they would have had after the expiration of the
term at which said act or thing was done, and no more.

318. In all cases where the pre-existing laws direct or re-
quire that any act or thing shall be done in or by any of said
courts during the same term at which some other act or thing
may be done or happen, such first mentioned act or thing shall
hereafter be done within thirty days after the doing or happen-
ing of said last mentioned act or thing.

319. All appeals from Justices of the Peace to the Balti-
more City Court shall stand for trial on the day following the
return day to which the appellee shall be returned summoned,
or the second return day to which the summons issued for the
appellee shall be returned non est. But before the Baltimore
City Court shall proceed to try any such appeal, the court shall
first be satisfied that all costs incurred on the judgment and
proceedings before the justice have been paid by the appellant.

320. In all cases in which appeals are or may be allowed to
the Baltimore City Court from the decisions of any commission-
ers, or other persons appointed in any manner to determine any
benefits or damages in any form of condemnation proceedings,
for the use of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,