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examinations and challenges. Such alternate jurors shall be
seated with the jurors with equal power and facilities for
seeing and hearing the proceedings in the case, and shall take
the same oath as the jurors already selected, and must attend
at all times upon the trial of the cause in company with the
other jurors; and for a failure so to do are liable to be
punished for contempt. They shall obey the orders of and be
bound by the admonition of the court upon each adjournment
of the court; and except, as hereinafter provided, shall be dis-
charged upon the final submission of the case to the jury. If
before the final submission of the case, a juror die, or become
ill, or for any other reason he be unable to perform his duty,
the court may order him to be discharged and draw the name
of an alternate, so qualified as herebefore set forth, who shall
then take the seat of the discharged juror in the jury box, and
be subject to the same rules and regulations as though he had
been selected as one of the original jurors.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 246.
(House Bill 47)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 6
of Chapter 368 of the Acts of 1937, entitled "An Act to
authorize the creation, of a State debt in the aggregate
amount of not exceeding One Million Dollars ($1, 000, 000),
the proceeds thereof to be used for the purpose of erecting
and equipping a new State Office Building in Annapolis, the
Capital of the State, and to provide generally for the issue
and sale of Certificates of Indebtedness evidencing such
loan. "

(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 247.
(House Bill 63)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 15 of Article 3
of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, title "Legis-
lative Department", regulating the period that the General