1120 ARTICLE 4.

jurors so selected and summoned shall be shown to be disqualified, or be
from any sufficient cause excused from serving, it shall be the duty of the
said Judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, or a majority of
them, to re-assemble as soon as they are notified thereof by the Judge of
the Criminal Court of Baltimore, and to assemble again, from time to
time, if the same be necessary, to correct and complete, in the manner
hereinbefore provided for, the said Grand Jury for the City of Balti-
more, by the selection of proper persons as aforesaid from the list of
qualified jurors made as aforesaid, omitting in said selection the names
of persons on said lists who may have been drawn to serve as petit jurors
in other Courts of said City at said term. The Judges shall, after so
correcting and completing the list of grand jurors for the City of Balti-
more, so before made out by them, attest the said list of grand jurors as
so corrected, by their certificate and signatures thereto. The Judge of
the Criminal Court of Baltimore shall, at the beginning of each term of
the said court, designate the foreman of the Grand Jury for the City of
Baltimore for the said ensuing term, from among the number of grand
jurors selected as aforesaid for said city; and in case of the disqualifica-
tion, sickness, absence or death of said foreman, or any foreman of said
Grand Jury, may designate another from among the number of said Grand
Jury, who shall act as such foreman.

State v. Keating, 85 Md. 188.

1900, ch. 164. 1908, ch. 162. 1918, ch. 477. 1924, ch. 428.

604A. Upon the organization of each grand jury, as provided for in
the preceding section, and upon their request therefor, signified to the
judge or judges for the time being especially assigned to and sitting in
the Criminal Court of the said city, the said judge or judges may and
they are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint a clerk, who shall
be a competent stenographer, at a compensation not exceeding the rate of
three thousand dollars per annum, to be paid by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, which said clerk shall have authority to take and
transcribe the testimony given before any grand jury in said City of
Baltimore, and whenever required by the State's Attorney, shall attend
upon and take and transcribe the testimony given at coroner's inquests, and
all of the said testimony so taken and transcribed shall be for the ex-
clusive use and benefit of the grand jury and the State's Attorney of said
city, unless otherwise ordered by the Court. In addition to the compensa-
tion aforesaid to be paid to said clerk by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall make
compensation to said stenographer for all testimony taken and transcribed
by him at any coroner's inquest or inquests, and when requested by the
State's Attorney for the use of his office, at a rate not exceeding fifteen
cents per hundred words of such testimony.

1900, ch. 164.

604B. Any clerk appointed under the provisions of the preceding
section shall before he enters upon the duties of his office take and sub-