HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR, 131
CHAPTER 135.
(House Bill 172)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 23
of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Juries", to correct an error in said section.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 23 of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Juries", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

23. Whenever the jurors for any term of court in the
counties of this State have been drawn as hereinbefore pro^
vided 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 reconvened for
intermediate sessions, as hereinbefore provided, for the balance
of said jury term, and until the beginning of the next succeed-
ing 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
ninth 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 judgment 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 next meeting of said
juries falls in immediate session, that the presence and at-
tendance of the said grand or petit jurors, or both, will not be
required upon said meeting day. Provided, however, that the
Court shall have power and authority at any time between
said dates fixed for said intermediate sessions to recall the
grand and/or petit jurors in special session at any time in his
discretion within said jury term for indictments or trials, or
both, as the case may be. In counties where the Circuit Court
holds non-jury terms, the power of the Court to require the
return of jurors aforesaid and to hold intermediate sessions or
adjourned sessions of the grand and petit juries, and either of
them during said jury term shall exist as though there was no