JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 55
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CHAPTER 57.
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AN ACT to repeal section nine of article one of
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the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Allegany
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county," sub-title " Circuit Court," as enacted by
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the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
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chapter eighty-two, and to re-enact the same with
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amendments.
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SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
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bly of Maryland, That section nine of article one
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of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Allegany
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county," sub-title " Circuit Court," as enacted by the
act of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter
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Repealed and
re-enacted.
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eighty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed and
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re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows :
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SEC. 9. There shall be four regular common law
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terms of the Circuit Court for Allegany county,
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held at Cumberland, three of which shall be jury
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Jury terms.
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terms, and one of which shall be a non-jury term.
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The three jury terms shall commence as follows : on
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Jury terms
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the first Monday in January, the second Monday in
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commence
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April, and the second Monday in October respec-
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tively in each year, and to each of said terms juries
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shall be summoned and returned in the mode and
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manner prescribed by law ; and the remaining term
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of said court shall commence on the first Thursday
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in July in each year, to which term no jury shall
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be summoned, and said court shall transact any
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business which may be transacted without the in-
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tervention of a jury.
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Approved February 21, 1878.
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