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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 215.

AN ACT to repeal section forty, of article eleven,

of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled " Fred-

erick county, " as amended by the act of eighteen

hundred and sixty-eight, chapter seven, and to re-

enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section forty, article eleven of the

Repealed and
re-enacted

Code of Public Local Laws, entitled " Frederick

county," as amended by the act of eighteen hun-

dred and sixty-eight, chapter seven, be and the same

is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

SEC. 40. The Circuit Court for Frederick county

shall hold four terms for both common law and

Terms of the
circuit court

equity proceedings, commencing respectively on the
third Monday of February, on the second Monday in

May, on the third Monday of September, and on the

second Monday in December, in each and every year;

to which terms in February and September, both

grand and petit jurors shall be summoned, and to

which December term petit jurors only shall be

summoned, and to which May term, no jurors shall

Trial terms.

be summoned ; the trial terms of said court, for the

cases depending therein upon issues of fact to be

tried by a jury, shall be the term to which jurors shall

be summoned next succeeding the terms to which the

original process may be returnable, and all original

and final process, both at law and in equity, shall be

returnable to the term next succeeding the date of

the issue thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the drawing

Drawing Jurors

of jurors for the jury terms aforesaid, shall be in all

respects as now prescribed by law, except that for the

December term aforesaid, and not leas than fifteen

days before the same, there shall be drawn from the

names remaining in the box from which the jury for
the proceeding September term is drawn, twenty-
five names, which shall constitute the petit jurors for

said December term, subject to the same provisions

and regulations, applicable to the correction and

completion of the jurors drawn for the other jury

terms aforesaid.