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157. In case the said person is tried upon a presentment or
indictment, it shall only be necessary to allege in the present-
ment or indictment that the offence was committed between the
hours aforesaid, and that it was committed on a highway in the
city of Baltimore, or at a place of public resort or amusement,
without setting forth said highway or place of public resort or
amusement by name.

158. All persons confined in the jail of Baltimore city for
offences punished by confinement in said jail, shall, after con-
viction, be kept occupied at hard labor in some useful employ-
ment, and the visitors of the said jail shall frame such regulations
as may be necessary to the industry, quiet and discipline of the
persons confined in said jail who may have been convicted of
any offences punishable as aforesaid by confinement, and ordered
to be confined therein.

159. All persons confined in said jail under the provisions of
the preceding section, shall be kept separate from such persons
as are in confinement awaiting trial or for other offences.

COURTS.
SUPERIOR COURT.

160. The stated terms of the Superior Court of Baltimore
city shall commence on the second Monday in January, the
second Monday in May, and the second Monday in September
in each year.

161. In addition to the first day of each term, the second
Monday in February, March, April, June, July, October, Novem-
ber and December in each year, shall be return days.

162. Any person instituting an action in said court, may, at
his election, have his original writ made returnable to the first
day of the next succeeding term, or the next succeeding return
day.

163. On the return of any original writ not executed, the
same may be renewed, returnable to the next term or next
return day thereafter.