JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 618.

AN ACT to provide for the selecting, drawing and summon-
ing of jurors for Queen Anne's County.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk to the County
Commissioners for Queen Anne's County to make out and
file with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, not
less than twenty days before the third Monday in January in
each and every year, a full and complete list of all the male
taxable residents of said county whose names appear on the
tax books thereof, and who are not known to said Clerk to the
Commissioners to be under the age of twenty-five years, to
which list, so to be made and filed, he shall append a cer-
tificate that said list is fully and fairly made, and for said

Queen Anne's
County.
Selecting,
drawing and
summoning of
jurors.

list he shall receive such compensation as the County Com-
missioners of said county shall deem right and proper, not
exceeding thirty-five dollars for any one list so made out, and
for failure to perform the duty hereby imposed, the said Clerk
shall forfeit and pay to the State a fine of not less than five
hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, in the
discretion of the Court, to be recovered by indictment as for
a misdemeanor, and shall thenceforth be incapable of hold-
ing the position of Clerk to said County Commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
judges or a judge of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's
County, not less than fifteen days before the commencement
of each term of said 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 first been given to said
bar through the crier of said court, to proceed to select
from the list last furnished by the clerk of the County
Commissioners as provided in Section one of this Act and
from the poll-books of the several election districts of this
county, which shall have been returned and filed in the Clerk's
office of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County, after any
general election last held, a panel to consist of one hundred
and fifty citizens of said county, to be fairly and impartially
selected with special reference to the intelligence, sobriety

Judges shall
select from
last list furn-
ished by clerk
a panel of one
hundred and
fifty citizens.