ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 23
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CHAPTER 28.
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AN ACT to provide for the selecting, drawing and summoning
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of jurors for Caroline county.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county commissioners
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of Caroline county, to make out and file with the clerk of the
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circuit court for said county between the fifteenth day of May
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and the first day of June next ensuing, and every second year
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thereafter, a full and complete list, alphabetically arranged in the
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order of election districts, of the taxable male residents of said
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county whose names appear on the tax books thereof and who are
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not known to the said clerk of the county commissioners to be
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under the age of twenty-five years; and to said list so to be made
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Lists.
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and filed the said clerk of the county commissioners shall append
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31 certificate that said list is fully and fairly made, and for making
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such list the clerk shall receive such compensation as the county
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commissioners shall deem right and proper, and for failure to
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perform the duty hereby imposed the said clerk of the county
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commissioners shall forfeit and pay to the State a fine of not less
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than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, in the dis-
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cretion of the court, to be recovered by indictment as for a mis-
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demeanor and shall be thenceforth incapable of holding position
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of clerk to county commissioners.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
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judges of the circuit court for said county or any one of them,
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not less than fifteen days before the beginning of each term of
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the court at which jurors are required to attend, in the presence
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of such members of the bar of said court as shall attend, notice
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of the time and place having been first given to said bar through
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the clerk of said court, to proceed to select from the list last
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furnished by the clerk of the county commissioners and from the
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To select
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poll-books of the several election districts of said county that
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shall have been returned and filed in the clerk's office of said court
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after any general election last held, a list that shall consist of
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the names of one hundred and fifty persons in said county,
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divided as near as may be between all the election districts
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thereof, fairly and impartially selected of the age aforesaid by the
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judges or judge, with special reference to the intelligence, sobriety
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and integrity of such persons and without the least reference to
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political opinion, and of the names of such persons so selected a
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