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CHAPTER 153.
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AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section
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ten of article fifty- one of the Code of Public General
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Laws of Maryland, title "Juries," as repealed and re-en-
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acted by chapter sixty-two of the Acts of the General
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Assembly of Maryland, eighteen hundred and ninety,
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entitled " an act to repeal and re-enact with amendments,
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section' ten of article fifty- one of the Code of Public
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General Laws, title "Juries."
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SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assemb.ly of
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Maryland, That section ten of article fif ty -one of the Code
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Repeal
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of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Juries," as re-
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and re-en-
actment
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pealed and re-enacted by chapter sixty-two of the Acts of
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the General Assembly of Maryland, eighteen hundred and
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ninety, entitled " an act to repeal and re-euact with amend-
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ments, section ten of article fifty -one of the Code of Public
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General Laws," title "Juries" be and the same is hereby
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repealed and re-enacted to read as follows, viz :
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SEC. 10. That of the forty -eight jurors drawn and sum-
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moned, the court at the beginning of the term for whicli
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Grand
Jury —
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they were drawn and summoned shall select and appoint
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Foreman
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one as foreman of the grand jury and shall direct the clerk
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of said court to legibly write upon ballots, the names of
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the remaining forty-seven jurors, and after carefully fold-
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ing said ballots separately, to place them in a box with a
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sliding top and said clerk shall draw said ballots therefrom
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one at a time, without looking into said box, and the first
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twenty-two names drawn, with the foreman previously ap-
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pointed shall constitue the grand jury, and the remaining
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twenty-five names shall constitute the petit jury for said
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term of court ; whenever a vacancy shall occur in the posi-
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tion of foreman of the grand jury, either temporary or per-
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manent, by death, absence, sickness or any other cause,
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the court shall have power to appoint some other member
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of the grand jury, foreman as often as the necessity for
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