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of the Grand Jury from the whole panel presently being used for
the drawing and summoning of jurors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 11 of Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Juries", sub-title "Qualification and Selection
of Jurors", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, and to read as follows:

11. Of the forty-eight jurors drawn and summoned, the court at
the beginning of the term for which they were drawn and summoned
shall select and appoint one as foreman of the grand jury (except
that in Montgomery County the foreman shall be selected from the
original panel of three hundred names, with his name being included
among the jurors drawn and summoned (and in Washington County
the foreman shall be selected from the list of names presently being
used as a panel in said county, as provided in Section 8 of this
Article), and shall direct the clerk of said court to.legibly write upon
ballots the names of the remaining forty-seven jurors, and after
carefully folding said ballots separately to place them in a box with
a sliding top, and said clerk shall draw said ballots therefrom one at
a time without looking into said box and the first twenty-two names
drawn, with the foreman previously appointed, shall constitute the
grand jury, and the remaining twenty-five names (or, in Montgomery
and Washington Counties [County], the remaining number of
names) shall constitute the petit jury for said term of court; when-
ever a vacancy shall occur in the position of foreman of the grand jury,
either temporary or permanent, by death, absence, sickness or any
other cause, the court shall have power to appoint some other member
of the grand jury foreman as often as the necessity for such appoint-
ment shall occur. If for any reason any person or persons drawn as
a grand juror or grand jurors shall fail to attend and be present at
the conclusion of the drawing or be disqualified or excused for cause
the court shall forthwith proceed to fill such vacancies from the afore-
said remaining number of twenty-five names of those who are present
in the order in which the names were drawn from the box and may
thereupon in its discretion fill such vacancy or vacancies thus made
in the petit jury by drawing the necessary number of additional
names therefor in manner provided by Section 9 of this Article. This
section is modified as to Allegany County, Prince George's County
and Talbot County. This section shall not apply to Baltimore County,
as to which special provision is made by the local law therefor.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved March 24,1955.

CHAPTER 95
(Senate Bill 165)

AN ACT legalizing the 1955 Supplement to the Annotated Code of
the Public General Laws of Maryland (1951 Edition), prepared

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.