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8. All persons over seventy years of age, and all delegates,
coroners, schoolmasters and constables, during their continuance
in office, shall be exempt from attendance as jurors.

4. No person shall be summoned to two courts successively.

5. No property qualification shall be required in any juror.

6. No sheriff shall summon any person to serve as a juror in
any court where he hath knowledge that such person hath any
matter of fact depending for trial at the same court he is
summoned to serve in, and no person having such matter of fact
depending for trial shall be admitted as a qualified juror between
party and party during the sitting of the court in which such
matter of fact shall be or expected to be tried; and such dis-
qualification shall be allowed as a good cause of challenge of any
juror, but no verdict of a jury shall therefor be set aside, or
judgment thereon stayed, arrested or reversed.

SUMMONING JURORS, DRAWING AND CHALLENGE.

7. The sheriffs of the several counties shall summon to the seve-
ral Circuit Courts for the counties ten days before the session of
the said courts respectively, a panel of forty-eight jurors, qualified
as prescribed by law, out of which the said respective courts
shall direct the clerk to draw by ballot twenty-three persons, who
shall be empanelled and sworn to serve as grand jurors during
the term to which they shall be summoned; and the persons
remaining upon the said original panel shall attend the court
and serve as petit jurors. Jurors in the city of Baltimore shall
be summoned as prescribed in the local law of the city.

8. If any juror being so summoned shall, without sufficient
excuse, neglect to appear, he shall be fined by the court not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars.

9. In all civil cases called for trial in any court in which a jury
shall be necessary according to the Constitution and laws of this
State, twenty persons from the panel of petit jurors shall be
drawn by ballot by the clerk under the direction of the court,
and the names of the twenty persons shall be written upon two
lists, and one of said lists forthwith delivered to the respective
parties or their counsel in the cause, and the said parties or their
counsel may each strike out four persons from the said lists, and