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Session Laws, 1890
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ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 25

name or names of such person or persons so last aforesaid drawn


to be inserted in the said venire facias to be summoned as afore-


said, and it shall be the duty of the said sheriff to summon the


persons named to make return thereof to said court at the open-


ing of its session; provided, however, that no person during any


calendar year shall serve as a drawn juror oftener than one term


of the court.


SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That on the first day of the term the


judges or judge present shall designate one person from the forty-


eight names so as aforesaid drawn to be foreman of the grand

Foreman.

jury, and after selecting the said foreman and causing the said


drawers or compartments to be emptied, the remaining forty-seven


names apportioned as near as may be to the several election dis-


tricts shall be deposited in the said drawers or compartments


from which they were respectively drawn, and the clerk shall in


presence of the court draw therefrom beginning with the first


election district twenty-two names which names together with the


foreman so as aforesaid selected shall constitute the grand jury,


and the remaining names shall constitute the petit jury; provided,


however, that the foreman shall constitute and be counted as one

Jury.

in the apportionment for the election district in which he shall


reside, it being the meaning of this act that the grand jury shall


be divided as equally as may be between the election districts of


said county, and as soon as the grand jury shall have been drawn


the several drawers or compartments shall be emptied and the

tickets which were taken therefrom in order to provide for the

drawing of the grand jury shall be respectively returned to their

several drawers or compartments for future use in drawing the

juries of said court.

SEC. 5. And be it enarted, That the said judges or any one of

them shall have the same power to compel attendance of jurors

and shall proceed in all other matters not provided in the preced-

To compel

ing sections as under the general law relating to jurors.


SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Elective.

the date of its passage.


Approved February 28, 1890.


CHAPTEE 29.

AN ACT to change the name of Hunting creek, a navigable stream
of water dividing a part of the counties of Caroline and Dor-
chester, to that of Linchester river.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the name of the stream of water which now divides a part


 

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