72 JURORS. [ART. 51

Qualification and Selection of Jurors.

1900, ch. 121.
7. Modified as to Howard county, and special law enacted.

1900, ch. 374.

7 and 8. Modified as to Garrett county, and special law
enacted.

1900, ch. 451.

7 and 8. Modified as to Allegany county, and special law
enacted.

1900, ch. 618.

7 and 8. Modified as to Queen Anne's county, and special
law enacted.

1900 ch. 130.

10. Modified as to Prince George's county, and special law
enacted.

1900, ch. 62.

23. Whenever the jurors for any term of any court in this
State have been drawn as hereinbefore provided by this article,
and the business of said term has so far proceeded as that either
the grand jury or the petit jury, or both the grand jury and the
petit jury shall have been finally. discharged, and by reason of
any event or events happening before or after said final discharge,
any criminal charge shall arise which the said court shall deem
of sufficient importance to be investigated forthwith by the grand
jury, and to be tried by a petit jury, the said court may, in its
discretion, require the grand jury for said term, and the petit
jury for said term, or either said grand jurors or said petit jurors,
to be summoned to return to said court at such time as the court
may direct; and in case any one of said jurors shall be unable to
attend, for reasons which said court may deem satisfactory, the
court shall proceed to fill the vacancy thus created as though said
juror had not been finally discharged, and thereupon said court
may proceed to investigate and try said criminal charge as fully
and completely as though said grand or petit jurors, or either of
them, had not been finally discharged for said term; and in
counties where the Circuit Court holds non-jury terms, the power