18                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 10

inability of any of said Judges to discharge his duties with efficiency,
by reason of continued sickness, or of physical or mental infirmity,
it shall be in the power of the General Assembly, two-thirds of the
members of each House concurring, with the approval of the Gov-
ernor to retire said Judge from office.

HA. The General Assembly may by law create such intermediate
courts of appeal, as may be necessary. The General Assembly may
prescribe the INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE jurisdiction of these
courts of appeal, and all other powers necessary for the operation
of such courts.

14B. No member of the General Assembly at which the addition
of Section 14A was proposed, if otherwise qualified, shall be ineligible
for appointment or election as a judge of any Intermediate Court of
Appeals, INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEAL, established by
law by the General Assembly pursuant to said Section HA, by
reason of his membership in such General Assembly.

15.    [The Judge who heard the cause below] Any judge of the
Court of Appeals or of the intermediate courts AN INTERMEDI-
ATE COURT of appeal who heard the cause below either as a trial
judge or as a judge of any intermediate court of appeal as the case
may be shall not participate in the decision [; in]. In every case an
opinion, in writing, shall be filed within three months after the
argument, or submission of the cause; and the judgment of the
Court of Appeals shall be final and conclusive [; and all cases shall
stand for hearing at the first term after the transmission of the
Record].

16.    Provision shall be made by Law for publishing Reports of
all causes, argued and determined in the [Court of Appeals, which
the Judges] Court of Appeals and in the intermediate courts of
appeal, which the judges thereof, respectively, shall designate as
proper for publication.

18. It shall be the duty of the Judges of the Court of Appeals to
make and publish rules and regulations for the prosecution of appeals
to [said] the appellate [Court] Courts whereby they shall prescribe
the periods within which appeals may be taken, what part or parts
of the proceedings in the Court below shall constitute the record on
appeal, and the manner in which such appeals shall be brought to
hearing or determination, and shall regulate, generally, the practice
of said Court of Appeals or AND any intermediate courts of appeal
so as to prevent delays, and promote brevity in all records and pro-
ceedings brought into said [Court] Courts, and to abolish and avoid
all unnecessary costs and expenses in the prosecution of appeals
therein; and the said Judges shall make such reduction in the fees
and expenses of the said [Court] Courts as they may deem advisable.
It shall also be the duty of said Judges of the Court of Appeals to
devise, and promulgate by rules, or orders, forms and modes of fram-
ing and filing bills, answers, and other proceedings and pleadings in
Equity; and also forms and modes of taking and obtaining evidence,
to be used in Equity cases; and to revise and regulate, generally, the
practice in the Courts of Equity of this State, so as to prevent delays,
and to promote brevity and conciseness in all pleadings and pro-
ceedings therein, and to abolish all unnecessary costs and expenses
attending the same. And all rules and regulations hereby directed to