CHAPTER 269.

Passed Mar.
21,1867.

AN ACT to add additional sections to the fourth
Article of the Code of Public Local Laws re-
lating to the mode of drawing jurors in and for
the city of Baltimore.

Selection of
Jurors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the present grand jurors for
the city of Baltimore heretofore selected and sum-
moned for the January term of the Criminal Court
of the said city for the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, and the present petit jurors selected
and summoned for the said Court, and all future
petit jurors to be selected and summoned for the
said Court, for any time during said term as tales-
men in said Court, are ana shall be in all respects
legally competent and qualified to act as such
grand and petit jurors and as talesmen, notwith-
standing any failure or neglect of the judges or
the clerks; or the sheriff to comply with the pro-
visions of the said Article relating to the mode of
drawing jurors in said city.

Directory
"provisions.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all the said
provisions of said Article relating to the mode of
drawing and summoning jurors, shall be construed
as directory merely, and no indictment or pre-
sentment for any felony or 'misdemeanor shall be
quashed, nor shall any judgment upon any indict-
ment or presentment, whether alter verdict, by
confession, or otherwise, be stayed or reversed, nor
shall any challenge to the array of jurors be al-
lowed because of any failure by the judges, or the
clerks, or the sheriff to comply with the said
provision of law relating to the drawing of jurors

Proviso.

in said city; provided, nevertheless, that if any
officer concerned in the drawing of said jurors
shall wilfully neglect to perform any duty em-
powered upon him by law, he shall be liable to
indictment in the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
and upon conviction shall be fined the sum of one
thousand dollars.

In force.

Sec. 3. Be it enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.