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	CHAPTER 61.
	AN ACT to enable the mayor and city council of Baltimore to
	appropriate a sum of money annually for the relief of the Saint
	Joseph's house'of industry of Baltimore.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That the mayor and city council of Baltimore be and they are	May ap-
	hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate annually towards the current expenses or for the benefit of the Saint Joseph's house	propriate.
	of industry of Baltimore, any sum of money they may deem
	proper, provided said sum shall not exceed one thousand dollars.
	Approved February 26, 1890.

	CHAPTER 62.
	AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section ten, of
	article fifty-one, of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled
	"Juries."
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That section ten, of article fifty-one, of the Code of Public Gen-	Repeal.
	eral Laws, title " Juries," be and the same is hereby repealed and
	re-enacted, so as to read as follows, viz :
	10. That of the forty-eight jurors drawn and summoned, the
	court at the beginning of the term for which they were drawn and
	summoned, shall select and appoint one who shall be the foreman	Foreman
	of the grand jury, and shall direct the clerk of said court to
	legibly write upon ballots the names of the remaining forty-
	seven jurors, and after carefully folding said ballots separately,
	to place them in a box with a sliding top; and said clerk shall
	draw said ballots therefrom one at a time without looking into
	said box, and the first twenty-two names drawn, with the foreman
	previously appointed shall constitute the grand jury, and the re-
	maining twenty-five names shall constitute the petit jury for said
	term of said court; whenever a vacancy shall occur in the posi-	Vacancy.
	tion of foreman of the grand jury, either temporary or perma-
	nent by death, sickness, absence or any other cause, the court shall
	have power to appoint some other member of the grand jury fore-
	man as often as the necessity for such appointment shall occur ;
	if for any reason any person drawn as a grand juror shall fail to
	attend or be disqualified or excused for cause, the court in its dis-
	cretion may fill such vacancy by drawing the necessary number
	of additional names in the manner provided by section eight of	Exempt.
	this article; this section shall not apply to Prince George's county