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twenty-five persons qualified to serve as jurors, to be summoned to
attend the said court as petit jurors at its January and July terms]
may require the attendance of the grand jury or the petit jury, or
both, whenever the business before the court warrants their attend-
ance.

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

Approved April 1, 1955.

CHAPTER 241
(House Bill 351)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 10 of
Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Elections", sub-title "Election Officials", relating to the
laws applicable in Allegany County as to the building or part of a
building used for a registration or election.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 10 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
(1951 Edition), title "Elections", sub-title "Election Officials", be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

10. It shall be the duty of the respective Boards of Supervisors to
appoint and to provide for furnishing, heating, lighting and cleaning,
a suitable place of registration and polling place in each precinct of
their county, or city, which shall be as near the center of the voting
population of the precinct as practicable; provided, however, that
whenever all three Supervisors of the said county or city, as the case
may be, shall file in their office a sworn statement in writing that a
suitable place cannot in their judgment be secured in any precinct,
a suitable place in an adjoining precinct may be provided; in no case
(except as to a building owned and occupied by a bona fide volunteer
fire company in Allegany County) shall a registration or election be
held in any building or part of any building used or occupied as a
saloon, dramshop, poolroom, billiard hall or bowling alley, or com-
municating therewith by doors or hallways. In Baltimore City and
in any county now or hereafter providing for a permanent board of
registration, no places of registration need be provided in the respec-
tive precincts of said city or county, but all matters of registration
may be conducted in the office of the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions. It shall be the duty of each Board of Supervisors of Elections
to use, wherever possible and practicable, public buildings, such as
school-houses and fire-engine houses, for registration and polling
places; and it shall be the duty of all public officials having charge of

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.