144                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 128

Edition) as amended by Chapter 8 9 of the Acts of 1931, title
"Frederick County", sub-title "Circuit Court", making the Decem-
ber term of court a non-jury term and relating generally to the
Circuit Court of Frederick County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 72 of Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), as amended by Chapter 8 9 of the Acts of
1931, title "Frederick County", sub-title "Circuit Court", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

72.

The Circuit Court for Frederick County shall hold four terms of
court for common law proceedings, commencing respectively on the
third Monday in February, on the second Monday in May, on the
third Monday in September, and on the second Monday in December
in each and every year, to which terms in February and September
both grand and petit jurors shall be summoned, [and to which
December term petit jurors only shall be summoned,] and to which
May and December terms no jurors shall be summoned; the trial
term of said court for the cases depending therein upon issues of
facts to be tried by a jury shall be the term to which jurors shall be
summoned next succeeding the terms to which original process may
be returnable; and the drawing of jurors for the jury terms afore-
said shall be in all respects as now prescribed by law, except that for
the December term aforesaid, and not less than fifteen days before
the same, there shall be drawn from the names remaining in the
box from which the jury for the preceding September term was
drawn, twenty-five names, which shall constitute the petit jurors for
said December term, subject to the provisions and regulations appli-
cable to the correction and completion of the jurors drawn for the
other jury terms aforesaid; and the said court shall have, and it is
hereby given, full power to reconvene during any May term of said
court the grand jury and petit jury summoned for the preceding
February term thereof, and also to reconvene during any December
term of said court the grand jury summoned for the preceding Sep-
tember term thereof, whenever and as often in each instance, as in
the judgment of said court the public interests may be thereby sub-
served; and the said jurors, when so reconvened, shall have in all
respects the same power and authority to act as they respectively
had during the terms for which they were originally summoned.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved March 3, 1959.

CHAPTER 128
(Senate Bill 222)

AN ACT to add new Section 20 (m-1), and to repeal and re-enact,
with amendments, Section 20 (n) of Article 2B of the Annotated

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.