20                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 10

ING TO A JUDGE OF THE COURT TO WHICH HE IS SO
ASSIGNED; AND HIS POWER AND AUTHORITY SHALL CON-
TINUE WITH RESPECT TO ALL CASES (INCLUDING ANY
MOTIONS OR OTHER MATTERS INCIDENTAL THERETO)
WHICH MAY COME BEFORE HIM BY VIRTUE OF SUCH
DESIGNATION AND ASSIGNMENT UNTIL HIS ACTION
THEREON SHALL BE COMPLETED. IN THE ABSENCE OF
THE CHIEF JUDGE OF THE COURT of Appeals the provisions
of this section shall be applicable to the senior judge present in said
Court of Appeals. The powers of the Chief Judge under the afore-
going provisions of this section shall be subject to such rules and
regulations, if any, as the Court of Appeals may make. The Court
of Appeals from time to time shall make rules and regulations to
revise the practice and procedure in the appellate courts and in the
other courts of this State, which shall have the force of law until re-
scinded, changed or modified by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by
law. The power of the courts other than the Court of Appeals to make
rules of practice and procedure shall be subject to the rules and
regulations prescribed by the Court of Appeals or otherwise by law.

33. The said Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall have power,
and it shall be its duty, to provide for the holding of as many general
Terms as the performance of its duties may require, such general
Terms to be held by not less than three Judges; to make all needful
rules and regulations for the conduct of business in each of the said
Courts, during the session thereof, and in vacation, or in Chambers,
before any of said Judges [: and shall also have jurisdiction to hear
and determine all motions for a new trial in cases tried in any of
said Courts, where such motions arise either, on question of fact,
or for misdirection upon any matters of Law, and all motions in
arrest of judgment, or upon any matters of Law determined by the
said Judge, or Judges, while holding said several Courts; and the
said Supreme Bench of Baltimore shall make all needful rules and
regulations for the hearing before it of all of said matters; and the
same right of appeal to the Court of Appeals shall be allowed from
the determination of the said Court on such matters, as would have
been the right of the parties if said matters had been decided by the
Court in which said cases were tried].

Article V

3. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to prosecute and
defend on the part of the State all cases, which at the time of his
appointment and qualification and which thereafter may be depend-
ing in the Court of Appeals and the intermediate courts of appeal, or
in the Supreme Court of the United States, by or against the State,
or wherein the State may be interested; and he shall give his opinion
in writing whenever required by the General Assembly or either
branch thereof, the Governor, the Comptroller, the Treasurer or any
State's Attorney, on any legal matter or subject depending before
them, or either of them; and when required by the Governor or
General Assembly, he shall aid any State's Attorney in prosecuting
any suit or action brought by the State in any Court of this State,
and he shall commence and prosecute or defend any suit or action
in any of said Courts, on the part of the State, which the General
Assembly, or the Governor, acting according to law, shall direct to
be commenced, prosecuted or defended, and he shall have and per-