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selection or drawing, but such error when discovered may be cor-
rected by drawing from the appropriate box another person 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 provided 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. It is understood upon passage of this Act that al-
though there are to be three terms of court with new petit jury panels
picked for each term, that grand juries are only to be chosen twice
yearly, i.e. at the beginning of the April and October terms, and that
there are to be four jury panels for each term instead of two. After
the October drawing of the one hundred and twenty-two jurors from
the panel of three hundred names, one hundred additional names are
to be selected in the same proportion as the three hundred names
were selected from the various councilmanic districts and placed in
the box. Under this new system, the four panels of twenty-five per-
sons each selected for the January term will be drawn from the
remainder same three hundred names selected in October, plus the
one hundred additional names that were placed in the box after the
October drawing. The April term then will start over again with three
hundred new names selected from the various councilmanic districts
to be placed in the respective drawers in the proportion herein pro-
vided for, another one hundred and twenty-two names drawn, a new
grand jury selected, and four new panels of petit jurors.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.

CHAPTER 218
(House Bill 623)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 50 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany County (1963 Edition,
being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Allegany County," subtitle "County Commissioners," to in-
crease the amount of money appropriated annually by the County
Commissioners of Allegany County to Friends Aware of Handi-
capped Children, Inc.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 50 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany County
(1963 Edition, being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Allegany County," subtitle "County Commission-
ers," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

50.

The County Commissioners of Allegany County are authorized to
levy annually and collect, as other taxes are levied and collected, a