Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                    957

returned non est or excused by the judge or judges was drawn,
another name to take the place of such person so dead, sick, returned
non est or excused, and shall cause the name or names last as afore-
said drawn to be inserted in said venire facias to be summoned as
aforesaid; provided, that should the person selected as foreman of
the grand jury die, be returned non est or be excused on account of
sickness or for any other cause, the judge or judges may select or
appoint another person from the names remaining on the original
list provided for in this section, and that the court, at the beginning
of the term for which the said persons were drawn and summoned,
shall direct the clerk of said court, or one of his deputies, to legibly
write upon ballots the names of the [forty-seven] seventy-two 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] next twenty-five
names drawn shall constitute [the] one petit jury panel and the re-
maining twenty-five names, another petit jury panel, for said term
of said court, and the name of no person disqualified if drawn shall
invalidate the selection or drawing, but such error when discovered
may be corrected by drawing from the appropriate box another per-
son in place of the person so improperly selected or drawn, and if
the foreman so selected after having been sworn should die, or for
any cause be excused by the court, the judge or judges after drawing
another name to be placed upon the panel of grand jurors, as pro-
vided in this section, may select and appoint any one of the twenty-
three persons constituting the grand jury as foreman in place of the
foreman so dead or excused.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved April 10, 1957.

CHAPTER 573
(House Bill 370)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, paragraph (1)
of Section 2 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition and 1956 Supplement), title "Corporations", sub-
title "Definitions"; to add four new sections to said Article to be
known as Sections 13A, 13B, 13C, 13D, to follow immediately after
Section 13 of said Article under a new sub-title "Extension of
Existence", and to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-
section (1) of Section (a) of Section 126 of said Article, sub-title
"Recording and Filing with the State Tax Commission", to pro-
vide for the revival of charters and extension of existence of
charters of corporations of this State which have expired pursuant
to the terms of their charters, and for other purposes.

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.