ART. 4.] CITY OF B*ALTIMORE. 2G6

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Baltimore city; one in the custody of the clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas; one in the custody of the clerk of- the Criminal
Court of Baltimore; and one in the custody of the sheriff of Bal-
timore city; and one shall be retained by the said judges, or by
such one of their number as they shall appoint, for the purpose
of verifying the lists of persons so delivered as aforesaid to the
clerk as aforesaid, or to the sheriff of Baltimore city; and when
the said book is delivered to him the said sheriff of Baltimore,
he shall immediately summon the several jurors drawn for the
several panels named in the said book to serve in the court for
which they have been respectively drawn, at such time as shall
be designated by the court.

610*. If any of the jurors so set down on the lists aa aforesaid
shall be legally disabled or excused from attending, the sheriff
on being notified thereof shall complete the said panel or panels
in which jurors are needed, by summoning in the stead of such
juror or jurors the persons whose names are set down in the said
jury book next after the regular panels as aforesaid; and he
shall summon such person or persons in the order in which they
are thereupon set down, and not otherwise.

611*. Every petit juror sworn upon any special panel shall con-
tinue to serve thereon until discharged by the court, notwith-
standing the expiration of his term of three weeks aforesaid; but
no one summoned as a juror shall be excused from service ex-
cept in open court, on good cause shown to the satisfaction of
the court; and if any juror summoned and not excused shall
fail to attend the said court until duly discharged, he shall be
fined for the use of the said city, not less than twenty nor more
than two hundred dollars, to be recovered by attachment or such
other appropriate process as the said court may direct.

612*. If at the trial of any cause in any one of the said several
courts as aforesaid tales de circumstantibus shall be ordered, it
shall be the duty of the sheriff to summon as such talesmen,
those who are entered in the said book, and who are not upon
the regular panels as aforesaid; and such talesmen shall be sum-
moned and called to be sworn, or affirmed on their voir dire or
otherwise, in the order in which their names are set down on the
said jury book, unless the said sheriff or his deputy in that be-
half shall swear that he has made true and diligent search for
such persons as do not appear, and that they cannot be found ;

or unless, being summoned, such pe'rsons have failed to appear.