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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 340.

Appropria-
tion.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be
and the same is hereby appropriated for the use and benefit of
The Board of Visitors of the Maryland Asylum and Training
School for Feeble-minded Children, for the erection and
equipment of a new building, upon the grounds of the said
institution, situate near Owings Mills, in Baltimore county,
Maryland.

Authority to
pay.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer, on the war-
rant of the Comptroller, be and he is hereby authorized to
pay the visitors of said institution the said sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars ($25,000) in the year 1903.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 341.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
one hundred and seventy -nine of Article 17 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "Prince George's
County," sub-title "Jurors," as amended by the Acts of
nineteen hundred, Chapter one hundred and thirty.

Repeal
and re-enact.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of
Maryland. That section one hundred and seventy-nine of
' Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
entitled "Prince George's County," sub-title "Jurors," as
amended by the Acts of nineteen hundred, chapter one hun-
dred and thirty, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, so as to read as follows :

How
Jurors shall
be drawn.

Section 179. Of the seventy-three jurors so drawn and sum-
moned the forty-eight names first occurring in the order in
which they were drawn shall attend Court at its opening
session for the ensuing term, and the Court at the beginning
of said term shall select and appoint one from the said forty-
eight jurors who shall be the foreman of the grand jury, and
shall direct the clerk of the Court to legibly write upon
ballots the names of the remaining forty-seven jurors, and
after carefully folding the said ballots separately to; place
them in a box with 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 pre-
viously appointed, shall constitute the grand jury, and the
remaining twenty-five shall constitute the petit jury for the
first week of said term ; and whenever a vacancy shall occur
in the position of foreman of the grand jury, either temporary
or permanent, by death, absence, sickness or any other; cause,