EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1325
shall be duly recorded in the presence of the said judge or
judges, who shall forthwith order a venire facias for the per-
sons whose names have been so drawn. The forty-eight marbles
or balls drawn shall be sealed up safely, and preserved by the
Clerk; the marbles or balls that were not drawn shall remain
in the box, or boxes, wherein they were deposited, which shall
be locked or sealed, to be used in filling vacancies that may occur
in the jury, in the same way they might be filled if the drawing
had been made by ballots. The intent and meaning of this Act
is not to supersede or repeal the laws now regulating the draw-
ing of juries by ballot, but simply to provide another way of
drawing them, leaving the judges in said Judicial Circuit free
to use either the ballot system or the marble or ball system. as
may be most convenient and satisfactory to the judge or judges
drawing a jury.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from and after the first day of June, nineteen hundred and
sixteen
Approved April 18th, 1916.
CHAPTER 641.
AN ACT to authorize the corporation of Trustees for the Brick
Meeting House Lot, in East Nottingham, Cecil County,
Maryland, "a religious corporation of the State of Maryland,
to lease for a term or terms of years portions of the land
granted to said corporation by the State of Maryland, by
patent dated February 13th, 1792, and recorded in Liber
I. C. No. H, folio 19, one of the Land Records Books of
the said State of Maryland.
WHEREAS, On the 13th day of February, 1792, a patent,
recorded in Liber I. C. No. H, -folio 19, one of the Land
Records of the State of Maryland, was issued by the State of
Maryland granting to certain Elisha Brown, Thomas Rogers,
Joseph England, Joseph Reynolds and James Trimble, Trus-
tees of the Brick Meeting House Lot, in East Nottingham,,
Cecil County, Maryland, forty acres of land, situated in said-
Cecil County, at or near a village, now known as Calvert, for
a meeting house for religious worship for the Society of
People, called Quakers, and for a burial ground for said.
Society of People and described as follows: Beginning at a.
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