396 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

it shall be lawful for the City to enter appeals in the
same manner and within the same time or times allowed for
their entry by other persons; and all such appeals by whomso-
ever prayed within the time or times limited therefor, shall be
heard and determined by the Baltimore City Court as speedily
as may be, each person interested being secured in his, her or
its right to a jury trial ; and in case there should be more than
one appeal in reference to the same piece of property, they
may all be heard together, in the discretion of the Court, be-
fore one jury; provided, a sufficient panel of jurors be fur-
nished, so that the City and the owners or representatives of
each separate interest or estate in such property may strike
four names from such panel; the practice, including the right
of appeal to the Court of Appeals in all such cases, shall con-
form as near as may be to the practice now prevailing in said
court in the trial of appeals from the decisions of the Commis-
sioners for Opening Streets.

321. The Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall annually
designate two members of the said bench to sit in their respec-
tive courts, attended by their clerks, during the annual sittings
of the Registers of Voters, and also on the four Saturdays im-
mediately preceding the September session of the Registers of
Voters of the City of Baltimore, for the purpose of hearing and
determining applications for naturalization, and such applica-
tions shall have precedence over all other business.

322. Whenever the record of proceedings in any suit, ac-
tion or issue pending in one of the courts of common law in the
City of Baltimore shall be directed to be transmitted for trial to
some other such court of the said City, in accordance with Arti-
cle 4, section 8, of the Constitution, it shall be the duty of the
clerk of the court from which the said record of proceedings is
so directed to be removed, to immediately deliver to the clerk
of the court to which the same is so directed to be removed, all
the original papers in the said cause, together with a certified
copy of all docket entries relating to the same, which original
papers and copy of docket entries shall constitute such record
of proceedings for the purposes of such trial; and it shall there-
upon become the duty of the judge of the court to which the