ART. 3. ] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 401

48. In all cases in said court, where, at the trial thereof,
exceptions shall be taken to any opinion or opinions, direc-
tion or directions of the court, and an appeal or writ of error
shall be taken or sued forth from or upon the judgment of
the court, all the exceptions of all the parties, plaintiffs and
defendants, that may have been taken, and whether the appeal
or writ of error be taken or sued by all or any of said parties,
shall be certified to the Court of Appeals as part of the
transcript of the record to that court, and shall by said court
be decided; and the decisions of said court, in the premises,
if the cause be remanded to said Circuit Court, shall be
accordingly certified to said Circuit Court.

49. All exceptions as aforesaid shall be- certified to the
Court of Appeals, although the bills relating to any of them
shall not have been actually drawn at length or signed by
the court, before the verdict shall have been recorded in the
cause; and although, before or after such verdict, the party
excepting shall offer to withdraw such exceptions; and in
such case, if the excepting party shall refuse or fail to draw
and submit to the court such exceptions, the same may be
drawn or submitted by the opposite party; and when
ascertained and corrected and settled by the court, to
conform to the evidence and to the points or prayers em-
braced in the exceptions, they shall be signed and sealed by
said court and avail as if drawn and signed and sealed in
the usual manner; provided, that no exception taken by the
party not appealing or suing a writ of error, as aforesaid,
shall be certified as aforesaid, if such party, by his counsel,
shall agree, in writing, and file the agreement in the cause,
not to avail himself at any future trial of the point or prayer
made or involved in such exceptions; which agreement shall
preclude the said party from availing himself, at any future
trial as aforesaid, of such point or prayer.

50. Nothing contained in the two aforegoing sections shall
debar the parties in any cause from waiving, by consent, the
right of having any of the exceptions, on either side as afore-
said, certified, as herein provided, to the Court of Appeals.

51. The judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to pur-
chase such law books as in their discretion they may deem
necessary for the furtherance of the business of the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county; provided, that the annual cost
of said books shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars; and the County Commissioners of Baltimore