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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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 22. 1912, sec. 22. 1904, sec. 22. 1888, sec. 22. 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.

This section referred to in passing upon functions of grand jury; criticism of public
officials; power exceeded. In re Report of Grand Jury, 152 Md. 623.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 23. 1912, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 23. 1900, ch. 62, sec. 23. 1908, ch. 477.
1933 (Special Sess.), ch. 97. 1935, ch. 262.

23. Whenever the jurors for any term of court in the Counties of this
State have been drawn as hereinbefore provided by this Article, and the
business of said term has so far proceeded that the daily services and
attendants of either the grand jury or the petit jury, or both the grand and
petit jury, shall be no longer necessary, said juries shall not be finally
discharged, but shall be excused from further service for the time being
until said jury or juries are reconvened for intermediate sessions, as
hereinbefore provided, for the balance of said jury term, and until the
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