J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      613

the duty hereby imposed the said clerk to said commissioners shall
forfeit and pay a fine to the State of not less than five hundred dol-
lars nor more than one thousand dollars in the discretion of the court
to be received by indictment as for a misdemeanor, and he shall be
thenceforth wholly incapable of holding or exercising the duties of the
said clerk to the county commissioners. Nothing in this section shall
apply to Baltimore, Charles, Harford, Montgomery, Prince George's,
Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot or Worcester counties. Special
local laws exist for [Caroline,] Somerset, Anne Arundel [,] and
St. Mary's [Queen Anne's and Talbot] counties.

9.

It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit courts for each of
the counties, not less than fifteen days before the commencement of
each term of the court at which jurors are required to attend, in the
presence of such practicing members of the bar of said court as shall
think proper to attend, notice of the time and place having been first
given to said bar through the crier or clerk of said courts, to proceed
to select from the lists last furnished by the clerks of the county
commissioners provided for in Section 6 and from the pollbooks of
the several election districts of said counties that shall be returned
and filed in the clerk's office of said courts after any general election
that may be last held previously to such election or from such other
list of names as the court may find available, a panel to consist of
the names of 200 persons in each of Dorchester and Wicomico coun-
ties, and a panel to consist of not less than one hundred and fifty
(150) nor more than three hundred (300) names in each of the sev-
eral counties of Washington, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Cecil,
Charles, and Calvert, [Kent and Talbot,] and in Montgomery County
a panel to consist of not less than one hundred and fifty (150) nor
more than five hundred (500) names, and in Prince George's County
a panel to consist of not less than three hundred (300) nor more than
four hundred (400) names, the names to be fairly and impartially
selected of the age aforesaid by the said judges, with special refer-
ence to the intelligence, sobriety and integrity of such persons and
without the least reference to their political opinions; and of the
names of such persons when so selected, a list shall be made and a
certificate thereto appended by the said judges that the said list
of names has been duly selected in conformity with and according to
the spirit and intent of this article, and which said lists and cer-
tificates shall be filed with the clerks of the said courts and by them
preserved as other proceedings of the said courts are kept. In the
counties above mentioned the names drawn on the panel shall be dis-
tributed among the several election districts in approximately the
same proportion as required for drawing the list of regular jurors.
Modified as to Howard, Garrett, Allegany, Anne Arundel, Worcester,
Somerset, and St. Mary's [Caroline, Queen Anne's and Talbot]
counties and special laws enacted. This section shall not apply to
Baltimore [County] , Caroline, Queen Anne's, Kent or Talbot coun-
ties, as to which special provision is made by the local law therefor.

And the said names so drawn in Frederick, Montgomery and
Carroll counties shall be recorded as hereinbefore directed for the
other counties, and thereupon the said judges shall forthwith order
a venire facias, directed to the sheriff of said counties, respectively,

10(e).