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Duties of
Clerks to
County Com-
missioners. |
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the
Clerk of the County Commissioners for each of the
counties of this State, to make out and file with
the Clerk's of the Circuit Courts for said counties,
not less than twenty days before the beginning of
the first regular term of said Courts, next ensuing
the passage of this Act, a fair and complete list of
the white male taxable inhabitants or residents of
said county, whose names appear on the tax books
of said county, and who are not known to said
Clerk, to be under the age of twenty-five years,
nor above the age of sixty-five years, and to which
said list so to be made and filed, the said Clerks
respectively shall append a certificate that said
list is fully and fairly made, and for making such
list, the said Clerk shall receive such compensa-
tion as the County Commissioners may deem right
and proper, and for failure to perform the duty
hereby imposed, the said Clerks to the said
Commissioners shall forfeit and pay a fine to the
State 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 be shall be thenceforth wholly
incapable of holding or exercising the duties of the
said Clerk to the County Commissioners. |
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Duties of
Judges of Cir-
cuit Courts. |
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the Authority
aforesaid, That it be the duty of the Judges of
the Circuit Courts for each of the counties within
the period of one month of, and not less than fif-
teen days before the commencement of each and
every term of said Court thereafter, at which ju-
ries are required to attend, in the presence of such
of the 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 Criers of said Courts, to proceed to
select from the lists last furnished by the Clerks of |
