LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1797.

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the said parties, or their counsel, or either of them, shall neglect
or refuse to strike out from the said lists the number of persons
hereby directed, it shall and may be lawful for the respective
courts aforesaid to direct their clerks to strike out from the list
of the party or parties so neglecting or refusing, the number of
persons herein before mentioned, and the remaining twelve per-
sons shall be empannelled, and sworn as aforesaid; provided
nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or
construed to take away the right of any person or persons to
challenge the array or polls of any panel returned, in the man-
ner always allowed by the laws of this state, or in any manner

to affect or change any of the provisions contained in the act,*
entitled, a supplement to an act concerning petitions for free-
dom, passed at November session, one thousand seven hundred
and ninety-three.
The act of 1793, ch. 55, was repealed by 1796, ch. 67, which contains a
clause respecting jurors in the case of petitions, the same verbatim with
that in the act of 1793.
By 1796, ch. 67, on the trial for petitions for freedom, either party may
peremptorily challenge twelve jurors.
By 1798, ch. 94, talesmen may be summoned where there would not be
twenty, and (by agreement,) the drawing of a panel of twenty jurors may
be dispensed with.

CHAPTER 89.

AN ACT for the valuation of Real and Personal Property within this State.
The modifications of this act, by various local laws, have divested it of its
general character. Laws of this character will be classed under 'Public
Local Law.'

CHAPTER 90.

AN ACT for the more effectual collection of the county charges in the seve-
ral counties of this State.
There are many local laws containing provisions inconsistent with this
act, to be found under the subdivision of 'Public Local Law.'

*Chap. 55.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in all cases hereafter, where any lands in any county of this
state may become charged for the payment of county taxes, and
the collector of such county can find no personal property in the
said county liable for, or chargeable with, the payment of the
same, the said collector shall and he is hereby directed and
required to return to the commissioners of the tax for the said
county, at their annual or adjourned meeting or meetings, or at
such other time or times as the commissioners, or a majority of
them, shall require or direct, a list of such tractor tracts of land,
lot or lots of land, and the amount of the taxes thereon respec-
tively due, together with the name or names of the person or
persons respectively chargeable with the payment of the same.

A list of
certain
lands to be
returned,
&c.