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and being passed upon by a three-fifths vote 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.

CHAPTER 97.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
23 of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1924 Edition), title "Juries".

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 23 of Article 51 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Juries", be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

23. Whenever the jurors for any jury term of court in
the Counties of this State have been drawn as hereinbefore
provided by this Article, and the business of said term has
so far proceeded that the daily services and attendance of
either the grand jury or the petit jury, or both the grand
and petit jury, shall be no longer necessary, said juries shall
not be finally discharged, but shall be excused from further
service for the time being until said jury or juries are re-
convened for intermediate sessions, as hereinbefore pro-
vided, for the balance of said jury term, and until the be-
ginning of the next succeeding jury term of said court.
And during the remainder of said jury term of court until
the beginning of the next jury term of said court, the
grand and petit juries shall meet on every fourth week
computed from the first day of said jury term of court
unless that day be a legal holiday, in which event they shall
meet the next day for indictments or trials, or either.
Provided, however, such intermediate session or sessions
of either the grand or petit juries or both, may be omitted
if the work awaiting the said grand and/or petit juries is
insufficient to justify assembling both or either in the judg-
ment of the court, for any particular intermediate session.
In that event the court shall so inform the Clerk of said
Court, and said Clerk of said Court shall notify said jurors
by mail at least five days before the day upon which the