Leaders of the Baltimore bar have signed “memorials” addressed to the Legislature to have the so-called Religious Liberty section of the Maryland Declaration of Rights changed in order to abolish religious belief as a qualification of jurors and witnesses, B. H. Hartogensis, attorney, told the local Y. M.-Y. W. H. A.
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