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ART. 51] RECALLING JURIES. 1279
dollar for his services per day, to be taxed in the costs by the justices;
and any juror who being summoned.shall fail to attend on a case of
forcible entry and detainer shall be liable to attachment and fine, in
the discretion of the justices to whom the summons is returned, not
exceeding ten dollars.
1904, art. 51, sec. 22. 1888, art. 51, sec. 22. 1860, art. 50, sec. 18.
1837, ch. 320, sec. 13. 1838, ch. 75.
22. The grand jury shall at each term of the court visit the jail
and inquire into its condition, the manner in which it is kept and the
treatment of the prisoners, and report the same to the court.
Cited but not construed in Cocking v. Wade, 87 Md. 540.
Ibid. sec. 23. 1900, ch. 62, sec. 23. 1908, ch. 477.
23. Whenever the jurors for any term of court in this State have
been drawn as hereinbefore provided by this' article, and the business
of said term has so far proceeded as that either the grand jury or the
petit jury, or both the grand jury and the petit jury shall have been
finally discharged, and by reason of any event or events happening
before or after said final discharge, any criminal charge shall arise
which the said court shall deem of sufficient importance to he investi-
gated forthwith by the grand jury and to be tried by a petit jury, the
said court may, in its discretion, require the grand jury for said term,
and the petit jury for said term, or either said grand jurors or said
petit jurors, to be summoned to return to said court at such time as the
court may direct; and in case any one of the petit jurors shall be
unable to attend, for reasons which said court may deem satisfactory,
the court shall proceed to fill the vacancy thus created as though the
petit jury had not been finally discharged, and as now provided by law,
and thereupon said court may proceed to investigate and try said crimi-
nal charge as fully and completely as though said grand or petit jurors,
or either of them, had not been finally discharged for said term; and
in counties where the circuit court holds non-jury terms, the power of
the court to require the return of the jurors aforesaid, and to hold a
session of said adjourned jury term shall exist as though there were no
such non-jury terms of said court, and the same had not intervened.
And the grand jurors summoned to return to the court under this sec-
tion, if there be twelve present, and concurring in any action taken bv
them shall have all the powers of the grand jury originally constituted
for the term, to which they were drawn, and for the transaction of all
business at said session of the court.
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