E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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and other instruments, and in administering oaths
and
affirmations under their said appointments, shall be
confirmed, and are hereby held and made legal and
operative, as fully as if the said Jones and Hunter had
been duly appointed and confirmed justices of the peace
for Baltimore county, and had taken and subscribed
the oath of office as such, and were residents therein.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from its passage.
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In force.
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CHAPTER
114.
AN ACT relative to Juries to serve in the Courts of
Baltimore city, and repealing certain exemptions from
such service.
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Passed April
7, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all citizens of the United States,
residing in the city of Baltimore, and between the ages
of twenty-one and sixty-five, shall be bound when summoned,
to serve on juries sitting in the courts of said
city, except those who are infirm in body or in mind,
ministers of the gospel, practitioners of law, practitioners
of medicine, teachers of day schools, officers of the
General Government, civil officers of the State, executive
officers of the said city and members of the General
Assembly and of the city council, when severally in
session.
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Citizens
bound to serve
on juries.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the court, on application,
may excuse such as are suffering under family
afflictions, or are under a necessity of speedily going
abroad, but pressure of engagements, whether of business
or of pleasure, is not to be deemed a sufficient justification
for being relieved from jury service.
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Court may
excuse.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That the fourth, fifth,
sixth and seventh sections of the act entitled, a further
additional supplement to the act entitled, an act for the
better regulation of the militia of the city of Baltimore,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-three, chapter one hundred and eighty-eight,
passed at the session of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
chapter three hundred and forty-nine, and the
third section of the act entitled, an act to incorporate
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Acts repealed.
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