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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the Gen-
eral Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its-
passage.

Approved February 19, 1931.

CHAPTER 9.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 72
of Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Frederick County, " sub-title "Circuit
Court, " changing the time for commencing certain terms of
the Circuit Court for Frederick County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 72 of Article 11 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Frederick County, "
sub-title "Circuit Court, " be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments, to read as follows:

72. The Circuit Court for Frederick County shall hold four
terms of court for common law proceedings, commencing re-
spectively on the third Monday in February, on the second
Monday in May, on the third Monday in September, and
on the second Monday in December in each and every
year, to which terms in February and September both grand
and petit jurors shall be summoned, and to which December
term petit jurors only shall be summoned, and to which
May term no jurors shall be summoned; the trial term of
said court for the cases depending therein upon issues of
facts to be tried by a jury shall be the term to which jurors
shall be summoned next succeeding the terms to which original
process may be returnable; and the drawing of jurors for the
jury terms aforesaid shall be in all respects as now prescribed
by law, except that for the December term aforesaid, and not less
than fifteen days before the same, there shall be drawn from the
names remaining in the box from which the jury for the preced-
ing September term was drawn, twenty-five names, which shall
constitute the petit jurors for said December term, subject to
the provisions and regulations applicable to the correction and
completion of the jurors drawn for the other jury terms afore-