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345.

On the first day of the term the judges or judge present shall
designate one person from the forty-eight names so DRAWN as
aforesaid drawn to be foreman of the grand jury, and after selecting
the said foreman and causing the said drawers or compartments to be
emptied, the remaining forty seven names [apportioned as near as
may be to the several election districts] shall be deposited in the
said drawers or compartments from which they were respectively
drawn, and , the clerk shall in presence of the court draw therefrom
, IN A LIKE PROPORTION AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 343,
beginning with the first election district , twenty-two names which
names together with the foreman so as aforesaid selected shall consti-
tute the grand jury, and the remaining names shall constitute the
petit jury; provided, however, that the foreman shall constitute and
be counted as one in the apportionment for the election district in
which he shall reside [, it being the meaning of this act that the grand
jury shall be divided as equally as may be between the election dis-
tricts of said county,] and as soon as the grand jury shall have been
drawn the several drawers or compartments shall be emptied and the
tickets MARBLES which were taken therefrom in order to provide
for the drawing of the grand jury shall be respectively returned to
their several drawers or compartments for future use in drawing
the juries of said court.

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

Approved April 8, 1965.

CHAPTER 470
(Senate Bill 313)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 142 of
Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Supplement),
title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "False Pretenses, Bad
Checks, etc.", amending the laws concerning the obtaining of
money, credit, goods, services, releases, and certain other things
of value in order to include therein the fraudulent use of credit
cards or purported credit authorizations.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 142 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "False
Pretenses, Bad Checks, etc.", be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

142.

Every person who, with intent to cheat and defraud another, shall
obtain money, credit, goods, services, release from any debt or
obligation for services, or for materials or labor in the construction
or repair of any building or buildings, wares or anything of value, of
the value of one hundred dollars or more, by means of a check, draft