ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 107
get a fair and impartial trial in the Court in which the same
may be pending, it shall not be necessary to make and
transmit a copy of said proceedings, but the Clerk of the
Court in which such suggestion is filed, shall forthwith
upon the filing of an order of removal, made in pursuance
of the provisions of Article 4, Section 8 of the Constitution
of the State of Maryland, notify counsel for all parties in-
terested in writing forthwith that the docket entries,
original papers and exhibits filed with said Clerk in said
cause are open to them for inspection, and said counsel
shall have four days on which said Clerk's Office is open for
business, excluding the day on which said notice was sent,
within which to examine said docket entries, original
papers and exhibits, and a transcript of the record of testi-
mony taken, if any, and upon the fifth day said Clerk of
said Court (unless a Judge having jurisdiction in said Cir-
cuit otherwise orders and directs) shall transmit the rec-
ord in said cause to the Clerk of the Court to which the
record has been ordered to be removed; said record to com-
prise and to consist of the original indictment or informa-
tion, the original exhibits and the originals of all other
papers filed in said cause with said Clerk, a transcript of
the testimony, if any, and a copy of the docket entries.
Whereupon, as soon as said record, as aforesaid, has been
received by the Clerk of the Court to which said case has
been removed, said cause shall stand for trial. The Clerk
of the Court to which such cause is removed shall receipt
to the Clerk of the Court in which the suggestion of re-
moval was made for said original papers, and shall return
the same to the latter Clerk as soon as they have served
their purpose in the trial of said cause in the Court to
which the same was removed. In the event of a second
removal by the opposite party to said cause under the pro-
visions of said Article 4, Section 8, of the Constitution of
Maryland, and Section 109 of this Article 75 of said Code,
the like proceedings shall be had, and the like record trans-
mitted as is herein provided above.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed upon by a yea and nay vote, sup-
ported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of
the two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved December 15, 1933.
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