ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE.
scribed the powers and duties of the visitors of the
jail of Baltimore city, then, and in that event, the
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operation of the sections of this article from five hun-
dred and seventy-one to six hundred, inclusive, shall
cease, and the said sections from five hundred and
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Ordinance to
be passed.
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seventy-one to six hundred, inclusive, shall be ipso facto
repealed.
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Effect of same.
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568. All titles to property of any and every kind
now held by the visitors of the jail of Baltimore city
shall be, and they are hereby transferred to and vested
in the mayor and city council of Baltimore to all
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Title to pro-
perty.
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intents and purposes, and all powers and privileges
heretofore conferred upon the said visitors of the jail of
Baltimore city shall be, and they are hereby conferred
upon the mayor and city council aforesaid.
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Powers and
.privileges.
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569. Each visitor so appointed shall, before he pro-
ceeds to act, take and subscribe before the mayor the
oath of office prescribed in the sixth section of the first
article of the constitution.
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Visitor's oath.
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This act further enacts that this act shall take effect from the date of its passage,
and that the said mayor shall immediately appoint visitors as in the case of vacancy
under the existing laws and ordinances.
In force and approved January 22,1868.
JURORS.
1868, c. 175 repeals section 612 and enacts the following in lieu thereof:
612. If at any trial of any cause in any of the said
several courts as aforesaid tales de circumstantibus shall
be ordered, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to sum-
mon as such talesmen those who are entered in said
book and who are not upon the regular panels as afore-
said, and such talesmen shall be summoned and called
to be sworn or affirmed on their voir dire or otherwise
in the order in which their names are set down on the
said jury book, unless the said sheriff, or his deputy in
that behalf, shall swear that he has made true and dili-
gent search for such persons as do not appear and that
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1868, c. 175.
Summoning
talesmen.
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