248                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 231

(b)    If the application is granted, the court shall modify and
correct the award so as to effect its intent and shall confirm the
award as so modified and corrected. Otherwise, the court shall
confirm the award as made.

(c)    An application to modify or correct an award may be joined
in the alternative with an application to vacate the award.

14.

Upon the granting of an order confirming, modifying or correcting
an award, judgment or decree shall be entered in conformity there-
with and be enforced as any other judgment or decree. Costs of the
application and of the proceedings subsequent thereto, and disburse-
ments may be awarded by the court.

15.

Except as otherwise provided, an application to the court under
this article shall be by petition and shall be heard in the manner and
upon the notice provided by law or rule of court for the making and
hearing of petitions. Unless the parties have agreed otherwise, notice
of an initial application for an order shall be served in the manner
provided by law for the service of a summons in an action.

16.

The term "court" means the circuit court for a county sitting in
equity or the Circuit Court or Circuit Court No. II of Baltimore City
of this State. The court shall make any determination provided for
herein without a jury. The making of an agreement described in
Section 1 providing for arbitration in this State confers jurisdiction
on the court to enforce the agreement under this article and to enter
judgment on an award thereunder.

17.

An initial application shall be made to the court named in Sec-
tion 16 of the county or Baltimore City in which the agreement
provides the arbitration hearing shall be held or, if the hearing has
been held, where it was held. Otherwise the application shall be
made where the adverse party resides or has a place of business or,
if he has no residence or place of business in this State, to any court
named in Section 16. All subsequent applications shall be made to
the court hearing the initial application unless the court otherwise
directs.

18.

(a) An appeal may be taken from:

(1)    An order denying an application to compel arbitration made
under Section 2;

(2)    An order granting an application to stay arbitration made
under Section 2(b);

(3)    An order confirming or denying confirmation of an award;

(4)    An order modifying or correcting an award;

(5)    An order vacating an award without directing a rehearing; or