JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 571
CHAPTER 369.
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AN ACT to repeal section five of chapter three
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hundred and twenty-nine, passed at the January
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session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled
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" An act to provide for the selection, drawing and
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summoning of jurors in the several counties, and
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prescribing their qualifications," and to re-enact
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the same with amendment.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That section five of chapter three
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hundred and twenty- nine, passed at the January
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session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled
" An act to provide for the selection, drawing and
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Repealed and
re-enacted.
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summoning of jurors in the several counties, and
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prescribing their qualifications," be and the same is
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hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
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follows :
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5. Of the forty-eight jurors drawn and summoned,
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the court, at the beginning of the term for which
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they were drawn and summoned, shall select and
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Court to ap-
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appoint one who shall be the foreman of the Grand
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point.
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Jury, and shall direct the clerk of said court to
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legibly write upon ballots the names of the remain-
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ing forty-seven jurors, and after carefully folding
said ballots separately, to place them in a box with
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Ballots to be
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a sliding top, and said clerk shall draw said ballots
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drawn.
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