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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 importance 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.

1939, ch. 245.

25. Whenever it appears that the trial of an action triable by a jury is
likely to be a protracted one, the court may, upon the request of either
party or upon its own motion, direct the calling of one or two additional
jurors, to be known as "Alternate Jurors". Such jurors must be drawn
from the same source, and in the same manner, and have the same qualifica-
tions as the jurors already sworn, and be subjected to the same examina-
tions and challenges. Such alternate jurors shall be seated with the jurors
with equal power and facilities for seeing and hearing the proceedings in
the case, and shall take the same oath as the jurors already selected, and
must attend at all times upon the trial of the cause in, company with the
other jurors; and for a failure so to do are liable to be punished for con-
tempt. They shall obey the orders of and he bound by the admonition of
the court upon each adjournment of the court; and except, as hereinafter
provided, shall be discharged upon the final submission of the case to the
jury. If before the final submission of the case, a juror die, or become
ill, or for any other reason he be unable to perform his duty, the court
may order him to be discharged and draw the name of an alternate, so
qualified as herebefore set forth, who shall then take the seat of the dis-
charged Juror in the jury box, and be subject to the same rules and regula-
tions as though he had been selected as one of the original jurors.