672 ARTICLE 51.

beginning of the next succeeding jury term of said court. And during
the remainder of said jury term of court until the beginning of the next
jury term of said court, the grand and petit juries shall meet on every
ninth week computed from the first day of said jury term of court unless
that day be a legal holiday, in which event they shall meet the next day
for indictments or trials, or either. Provided, however, such intermediate
session or sessions of either the grand or petit juries or both, may be omitted
if the work awaiting the said grand and/or petit juries is insufficient to
justify assembling both or either in the judgment of the court, for any
particular intermediate session. In that event the court shall so inform
the Clerk of said Court, and said Clerk of said Court shall notify said
jurors by mail at least five days before the day upon which the next
meeting of said juries falls in immediate session, that the presence and
attendance of the said grand or petit jurors, or both, will not be required
upon said meeting day. Provided, however, that the court shall have
power and authority at any time between said dates fixed for said inter-
mediate sessions to recall the grand and/or petit jurors in special session
at any time in his discretion within said jury term for indictments or
trials, or both, as the case may be. In Counties where the Circuit Court
holds non-jury terms, the power of the Court to require the return of
jurors aforesaid and to hold intermediate sessions or adjourned sessions
of the grand and petit juries, and either of them during said jury term
shall exist as though there was no such non-jury terms of said Court, and
the same had not intervened. Provided, however, that in St. Mary's,
Charles, Calvert and Prince George's Counties the grand and petit
juries shall not meet in intermediate session on every ninth week com-
puted as hereinbefore provided and in the event that the work in any
county awaiting the grand and/or petit juries is sufficient to justify
assembling both or either in the judgment of the Court, the Court shall
so inform the Clerk of Circuit Court for said County and said Clerk
shall notify said jurors by mail at least five days before the day upon
which their attendance shall be needed in intermediate session.

Not necessary for court to recite event which it deemed of sufficient impor-
tance to recall grand jury. State v. Coblentz, 167 Md. 531.

1935, ch. 385.

24. The jurors sworn to try either a criminal or a civil action may,
at any time before the submission of the case to the jury, in the discretion
of the court, be permitted to separate or may be kept in charge of proper
officers.