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12.

A. Removal in Montgomery County of certain actions to Circuit
Court for consolidation.

In Montgomery County, where there is an action pending before
the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, which arises out of the
same transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of an action
which is pending before the People's Court for Montgomery County,
the People's Court for Montgomery County shall upon application
of any party to said action pending before said People's Court, prior
to the commencement of the trial thereof, order said action before
it removed to the said Circuit Court for Montgomery County for the
purpose of consolidation with the action which is already pending
therein. The court costs, if any, assessed by virtue of said removal
shall be paid initially by the party petitioning for said removal, and
the final responsibility for said costs shall be subject to the order
of the said Circuit Court in the final disposition of said action.

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

Approved April 8, 1965.

CHAPTER 240
(House Bill 442)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 121 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Howard County (1957 Edition, being
Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title
"Howard County," subtitle "Jurors," amending the laws relating
to the selection of jurors in Howard County, to the end that each
person in Howard County eligible for jury service shall have an
equal chance of being selected regardless of the election district
where he or she resides, but with each election district being repre-
sented.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 121 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Howard County
(1957 Edition, being Article 14 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Howard County," subtitle "Jurors," be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

121.

In Howard County there shall be procured by the Clerk of the
Circuit Court a jury box of convenient size, which shall be divided
into as many compartments as there may, from time to time, be elec-
tion districts in said county, and which compartments shall be num-
bered to correspond with the districts of the county; that when the
names of the persons are selected by the Judges of the Circuit Court
for said county, or either of them, in the manner prescribed in Article
51 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Juries," immediately
thereupon the Judge or Judges of said Court, in the presence of the
members of the bar and such other persons as may attend, of the said
names so selected, shall select and appoint one, who shall be foreman
of the Grand Jury, and shall cause all the names selected, except the