1828.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 161.

the limits of the city, at the time of the institution of the
suit, or rendition of the judgment, appealed from, and also
for the trial of all criminal cases within the jurisdiction of
the court; and the grand and petit jurors, required to attend
said court, during the said two terms, shall be summoned
from the county without the limits of the said city, and
shall be required to attend on the first day of each of the
said terms.

Remaining terms
to be called City

Terms

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the remaining eight
terms shall be called City Terms, and that the sheriff of
Baltimore county shall summon, in the manner now requir-
ed by law, twenty-four persons from the said city, to serve as
jurors for each and every of said terms, who shall be enti-
tled to per diem allowance of fifty cents, to be paid in the
manner now provided by law.

Court may be held

by one Judge, &c

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said court may be
held by one judge only, for the trial of any jury causes,
but all cases and points reserved at trials as hereinafter men-
tioned, all demurrers, motions in arrest of judgment, or
for new trials, and issues at law, shall be argued or submit-
ted in the said court before all or a majority of said
judges.

Hearing appeals

from magistrates

&c

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That during the first three
weeks of each and every city term, one of the judges of
the said court may sit daily, during seasonable hours, for
the hearing of appeals from magistrates, except where jury-
trials are demanded, granting discharges to insolvent deb-
tors, except where a jury is necessary, taking special bail,
naturalizing applicants for citizenship, and generally for the
dispatch of business in Baltimore county court not herein

Apportionment of

budiness among

the Judges

before especially assigned.
Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the said judges, or a ma-
jority of them, shall in the month of April next, and in
the month of January, in each and every year thereafter,
apportion among themselves, in writing, the business of
the said court, in the manner hereinbefore directed, and
when such apportionment is made, it shall be delivered to
the clerk of Baltimore county court, to be by him filed
among the records of said court, and it shall be the especial
duty of each judge to attend regularly at the times so ap-
pointed, for the dispatch of the business assigned to him, un-
less prevented by indisposition, in which case his particu-
lar duties shall be discharged as far as practicable by one of
the other judges.

Process on com-

mon law side may

bear teste on first

day of last term

&c

Sec. 7. And be it enacted. That all process issuing from
the common law side of said court, when the defendant or
defendants shall be residents of the county aforesaid, may
bear teste on the first day of the last county term, and be
made returnable on the first day of the county term nest
thereafter, and all process in city causes on the common law