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If there shall be any excess of the fees, receipts and emoluments of
the office in any year, after deduction of expenses and salaries,
including that of the Clerk, all such excess shall be paid to the
Treasurer of the State. If the fees and receipts of the office shall
be insufficient in any year to pay all or any part of the authorized
salary of any Clerk, the deficiency shall be paid to the said Clerk
by the Comptroller from funds provided for that purpose in the
State budget.

(c) The Clerks of Court of Baltimore City and of the several
counties shall, respectively, devote their full working time to the
duties of their office.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act shall
be construed or applied to change or affect in any manner the salary
of any Clerk of Court in office at the time this Act becomes effective
for the duration of the term in which he then is serving.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved March 29,1955.

CHAPTER 185
(Senate Bill 200)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 25 of
Article 51 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Juries", sub-title "Qualification and Selection of Jurors", to
abolish the requirement that juries meet every nine weeks from
the beginning of a term of court and authorizing the court to
call either a grand jury or a petit jury or both in session at any
time during the term and make the laws of the State uniform in
these respects.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 25 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of Jurors", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-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, to read as follows:

25. Whenever the jurors for any 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 neces-
sary, 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]
herein provided, for the balance of said jury term, and until the

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